Other Projects
...corporate commissions, album art, cover illustrations and other fun/uncategorizable stuff!
This page features a selection of recent work that could be classified as a public or corporate project in some way, or work that doesn't really fit into any category. This page is very much a work-in-progress and hasn't been "thoroughly" updated since 2022: there's a LOT to be added still! Meanwhile, feel free to look around but please excuse the mess. At least there's no danger of wet paint ;)
2023
I Wrote a Book!
In the summer of 2023 I published a book of essays and images of every painting from my Houses of Lansdowne watercolor series (aka my "Pandemic Project."
There are three ways to order your copy:
1. Venmo $30/book to @Erica - Harney (#2535). Don't forget to include your full name and address for shipping/delivery!
2. PayPal $30/book to ericaharney @ gmail.com. Don't forget to include your full name and address for shipping/delivery!
3. Purchase your copy on Etsy!
2022
What have I been working on this year? YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT! I've pretty much spent all my time this year building this website from scratch! (For the first- and hopefully last- time!) My original website, built in 2006 by my dad, was ready to be retired.
M. Night Shyamalan's A Knock At the Cabin
As you may know, I've been working in the production/entertainment industry for a long time. Earlier this year I created a "house portrait" for the set of M. Night Shyamalan's 2023 film.
Cover illustration for Wicked World: Poems of Philadelphia by Ernest Yates
Original image: Wicked World, 2022
Ernest Yates, Wicked World: Poems of Philadelphia
ISBN-13:9781669809937
ON THE SUPERFICIALITY OF ART How can poetry be anything besides deceit? How else can poets adapt to emptiness? When the masters discovered how meaningless the world is, naturally they were disappointed. So they responded with irony, satire, putting on airs, all kinds of tyranny. Some even went mad. Nowadays we usually just binge on topics urgent as our selves, our longings for justice and a stable home. Meanwhile the world keeps behaving according to its god: change? meaningless, inevitable, merciless change? obedient to that god's twin commandments endless death, never-ending generation. Watching their children grow, every father every mother already knows this . . . this renewing emptiness. Beyond joy. Beyond sadness.
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2021
Producing/Recording/Mixing: Allegheny City Sound
Mastering: Abbey Road Studios
Art: Erica Harney
Design: Ryan Hizer
Album cover for Anne Eliza's I Wish You Well, 2021
Original image: Doubt, 2009
STEM Series, 2018-2019
In 2018 I was commissioned by the Fulton County Community College in upstate New York to create a series of large oil paintings representing Women working in the STEM fields. In 2019 I added more paintings to the series, this time representing men working in fields that are non-traditional for their gender. Read more about this project here.
Physics
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Chemistry
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Medicine/Biology
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Electrical Engineering
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Business
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Computer Science
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Criminal Justice
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Radiology
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
Facilites Maintenance
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2018
App Development
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2019
Early Childhood Development
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2019
Nursing
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2019
Social Work
60 x 36"
Oil on canvas
2019
2017
Stadium Series
18x24"
Oil on canvas
This painting was created for Jakub Voracek of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. 50 prints were created and used to raise funds for the Jakub Vorack Foundation.
2016
Our Every Life Ambition
48 x 60"
3M tape on clayboard
Minneapolis, MN
This piece was commissioned by the 3M Corporation and was created with 3M artist, medical and industrial tape.
2014
Backdrop I
11 x 14 '
oil/mixed media on muslin
Collaboration with double bassist Slaveiko Savov
Backdrop II
11 x 14 '
oil/mixed media on muslin
Collaboration with double bassist Slaveiko Savov
Cover art for Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist's Memoir
by Annita Perez Sawyer
Original image: Annita in Mind, 2014
Annita Perez Sawyer: Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist's Memoir
Dr. Annita Sawyer’s memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness from an early age, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer is institutionalized, suffering through 89 electroshock treatments based on a misdiagnosis before being transferred, “unimproved.” After finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer is discharged in 1966, but the damage done haunts her life. She returns to school, keeping her past secret, while she moves on to graduate from Yale, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist, achieving a level of equanimity – until 2001, when she reads her hospital records.
As she begins to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 50s and 60s, Sawyer revisits scenes from her early years, assembling pieces of a long-lost puzzle. Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass is a cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, both 50 years ago and today. It is an illuminating story about understanding PTSD and making emotional sense of events that can lead a soul to darkness. Most of all, it's a story of perseverance – of pain, acceptance, healing, hope, and, ultimately, success. A unique voice for this generation, Sawyer moves well beyond The Bell Jar and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden to shed light on an often misunderstood illness.
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