Grady Harp

Grady Harp is the Art and Poetry Reviewer for POETS and ARTISTS magazine and writes for other publications as well. He is the Art Historian for the quarterly journals THE ART OF MAN and VITRUVIAN LENS and he has provided chapters and introductions to numerous books such as POWERFULLY BEAUTIFUL and 100 ARTISTS OF THE MALE FIGURE. His essays and articles appear in three major books on art - EROS & ADONIS, COCO: The Testimony of Black and White, and THE TRILOGY OF THE DOUBT distributed internationally. His poetry appears in the monograph entitled WAR SONGS: Metaphors in Clay and Poetry from the Vietnam Experience, a publication that accompanied a two year traveling exhibition, INCONVENIENT STORIES: Vietnam War Veterans by Jeffrey Wolin, in Poetry: The First 10 Years of the New Millennium: GRADY HARP by Didi Menendez, 50/50 Words and Images for Didi Menendez, and in art/poetry collaborations with Judith Peck, Rebecca Zenn, Lizabeth Teracina, Laurie Kolp and Hector Melia, and Jaime Valero. As an art gallerist he has presented premiere artists from throughout the world for such exhibitions as WADE REYNOLDS: Full Circle Retrospective, BODY LANGUAGE: Current Figurative Painters, INDOMITABLE SPIRITS: The Figure at the End of the Century and MEMENTO MORI: Contemporary Still Life. He has produced exhibitions for the Arnot Art Museum in New York, Fresno Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, and Cleveland State University Art Gallery and has served as a contributing artistic advisor for universities and colleges throughout California, in Berlin, the Centro Cultural de Conde Duque in Madrid, and in Oslo, Norway. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.