Flood
Charles Harlan

A 10-foot by 10-foot brick cube, 10 feet high, with a basin of water inside.

A chain link fence, 6-feet wide, draping 33 feet from the ceiling, resting on the concrete.

A piece of fencing, into which a tree grew.

736 square feet of roofing shingles, tiled on the floor to walk on.


Flood is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by curator David Everitt Howe.


Charles Harlan received his BS from New York University in 2006. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta; Carl Kostyál, London; and Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels. Recent solo exhibitions include Hamlet’s Mill, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (2015); Ishtar, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY (2014); The Gate, Karma, New York, NY (2013); and Cave, JTT, New York, NY (2013). Select group exhibitions include Object Painting – Painting Object, Jonathan Viner, London (2015); Over & Under, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY (2015); Judo, organized by Zak Kitnick, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY (2015); The Unwinding, Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium (2014); To do as one would, David Zwirner, New York, NY (2014); do it (outside), curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY (2013); and The Medicine Bag, Maccarone, New York, NY (2011). His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, ArtReview, Kaleidoscope, and Mousse with an interview by Carol Bove forthcoming in Flash Art.