Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Gary Faigin in the exhibition, “The Age of Steam.” Faigin, a Northwest artist and leading proponent of realist painting, focuses on the steam engine as the quintessential symbol of the Industrial Revolution. He depicts trains in a myriad of landscapes and fictional narratives, that beckon the train’s history as a fearsome and immensely powerful agent of change that linked coasts, devastated forests and buffalo herds, and even standardized time. Faigin’s paintings explore the two sides of this critical machine – its identity as a giant, mechanical sculpture which we cannot help but admire, and its capacity to forever alter the landscapes and people it encounters.