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On a street in Portland, Maine, we find a door with a the outline of a face, a stylized head cut into a door as a window. Above lie other windows with light and a star-cut, hanging lamp. Next door, we see intimations of a shop, but our eye is drawn to the face in the door and what lies within.

A face in the door
Within a face in the door
Who could ask for more?

Brent Harris, whose home and studio are in Pacifica, California, hails from Indiana. He moved with his family to New England before he started first grade, where he lived until he graduated from high school in 1970. The following summer he hitch-hiked to California. He met the woman who became his wife and they have lived happily in the San Francisco Bay Area since. Grounded by his upbringing in the values of Middle America, Harris’ view of the world and his art draws its main influenced from the diversity found in coastal cities. Always an imaginative and creative child, his family’s moves sometimes left him to entertain himself until he made new friends. His first official foray into art came in a Junior High School art class....