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Brent Hallard

1957
(AUSTRALIA) AMERICAN

Brent Hallard er en australskfødt abstrakt kunstner, kurator og forfatter, hvis værker på papir og aluminium udforsker minimalistisk ikonografi og monokromatiske udtryk.
Hans arbejde svinger mellem præcise, formelle undersøgelser af geografiske former og mere legende, idiosynkratiske kreationer.
Han bor og arbejder i øjeblikket i Sydney, Australien.

Undervisning

Brent Hallard fik sin Bachelor of Fine Arts i 1990 og fortsatte med at få sin Master of Arts fra University of New South Wales i 1992.

Teknik

Ved at bruge medier som tuscher, akvareller og akrylmaling konstruerer Hallard monokromatiske og semi-monokromatiske billeder af genkendelige geometriske former som firkanter og rektangler på papir og aluminium.

Arbejdet består ofte af enkle former og klynger af former, og andre gange undslipper det grænserne for linje og form.

Hallard har en tendens til at fokusere på arbejde, der formidler præcision og nøjagtighed, samtidig med at han flirter med løsere udforskninger af farve og form, hvilket skaber mere eksperimentelle geometriske abstraktioner, der inviterer til yderligere lag af interaktion fra beskueren.

inspiration

Kunstneren arbejder med temaerne rum og geometri, manipulerer billeder og arrangementer af objekter for at udfordre beskuerens opfattelse.

Hans arbejde er dybt forankret i grundlæggende kunsthistorie, især bygget på tendenserne inden for abstraktion, minimalisme og farvefeltkunstnere.

Værket opretholder også en vis menneskelig kvalitet, idet det inkorporerer en følelse af åbenhed og frivolitet, der antyder en underliggende frihed fra formelle begrænsninger.

Relevante citater

Kate Mothes fra Young Space Art Blog sagde om Brent Hallards arbejde:

"Malerierne...er vidunderligt enkle. Kanterne er så distinkte, og farverne så lyse, at de næsten presser ind i det optiske område. Nogle af hans værker er perfekt symmetrisk, alligevel skifter grænserne, når vi lader vores øjne bevæge sig fra segment til segment, stribe til stribe, mens farven leger små tricks med vores øjne. Han ser ud til at forpligte sig til symmetrisk, hårdkantet abstraktion og så i næste øjeblik lave et værk...der synes at sige, at han ved, at disse forventes at være hårdkantede malerier, men se? Nogle gange er de ikke. Og for at bevise det, vil han farve uden for linjerne."

Bemærkelsesværdige Distinktioner

Grundlægger af Visual Discrepancies Kunstblog

1986
Kunstgalleri i New South Wales, Sulman Prize, Bedømt udstilling

Udstillinger

Hallard har i vid udstrækning udstillet i en række solo- og gruppeudstillinger i USA, Europa og Asien. Hans arbejde har også været inkluderet i flere museumudstillinger nationalt og i Holland.

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Education

1992 Master of Arts, University of New South Wales, COFA
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, COFA

Selected Exhibitions

2018 Wave, curated, BSA Project Space, Northern Rivers
2018 2 x 2, group show, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Load, Solo show, Five Walls, Melbourne
2017 0ppler, curated by Mel Prest, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn
2017 Mixed Tape, Palmer Art Projects, Sydney
2017 Chromatopia, curated by Louis Blyton, Melbourne
2017 100 years after De Stijl, Openlucht Museum De Lakenhal
2017 Visual Discrepancy, curated for Crawford Gallery, Sydney (2 person)
2017 Trans, curated by Kyle Jenkins, Raygun Projects, Toowoomba
2017 Samenhang, with Jasper van der Graaf and the collection of Camiel Andriessen, Het Kunstgemaal, Netherlands
2017 Dirty Filthy Painting, curated by Michael Cusak, BSA Project Space, Northern Rivers
2017 Line and Space curated by Suzie Idiens, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
2017 Colour and Form, Olsen Gallery, Sydney Contemporary 17, Sydney
2017 The Shape of Things curated for Artpiece, Mullumbimbi
2016 Drawing Conversations, National Art School, East Sydney
2016 Connect & Collect, SJICA, San Jose, CA
2016 Lavender Strike, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2016 The White Collection, Conny Dietzschold Gallery
2016 Hydrography lll, LaKaserna Artspace, Bad Nieuweschans, Netherlands (curated by Henriëtte van't Hoog and Iemke van Dijk)
2016 Engaged Drawing, curated Beatrice Bea, Yifat Gat, Artothèque, Miramas
2015 Nolan Projects, organized by John Adair, Nolan Foundation, Wales, UK
2015 Volume, curated by Mary Judge and Enrico Gomez, Schema Projects, New York
2015 Formal Watercolor, Museum Waterland, Purmerend, Netherlands, curated by Piet Knook
2015 Territory of Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, curated by Christine Pfister
2015 Paperazzi 4, Janet Kurnowski Gallery, New York
2014 un·bound·ed, bi-coastal and international show focusing on conceptual & reductive practices, Root Division, San Francisco
2014 Doppler Shift, curated by Mary Birmingham, New Art Center, New Jersey
2014 Abstract Realities, Jan Van de Ploeg, Brent Hallard, Richard Van der Aa University of Southern Queensland
2014 Dressed in Pink, Raygun Art Projects, Southern Queensland
2014 Hard-Edge Abstraction, curated by Kasarian Dane and Catherine Tedford, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York
2014 Paperazzi 3, Janet Kurnowski Gallery, New York
2013 Sydney Non Objective Turns 100, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
2013 The Big small Graphic Art Show, Graphic Studio Daglicht Eindhoven
2013 LIGHT SPACE PROJECTS 2013: Rituals of Exhibition II by The Talent Agency, H Gallery Chiang Mai, Thailand
2013 DOPPLER, curated by Mel Prest, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Hydrography - Abstract in Watercolor, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands, curated by Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van 't Hoog.
2013 Rituals of Exhibition curated by Gilbert Hsiao and Giles Ryder Don't Be Selfish, Phayao Thailand
2013 Paperazzi 2 Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York
2013 Right and Other Angles curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones at Soft-spot
2013 Never Underestimate a Monochrome organized by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz through Abstraction at Work Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
2012 Index #3, publication and exhibition organized by Justin Andrews, Melbourne
2012 Dripping Color Amazement, curated by Brent Hallard, Galerie oqbo, Berlin
2012 Never Underestimate a Monochrome organized by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz through Abstraction at Work, sponsored by the University of Iowa Museum of Art
2012 Doppler Stop, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin and Zagreb?Supermarket 2012 IS Projects/SNO/PARISconcret, Stockholm?
2012 Paparazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 VOID289, UNVOID curated by Naoshi Okura KOBE Biennale, Japan
2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions ?Brooklyn Artist's Gym, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Saturation Point International Survey of Reductive Art, London
2011 Gifting Abstraction Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, curated by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz, NY
2011 Sugarmountain 2 Galerie van den Berge, curated by Clary Stolte, Goes, NL
2011 Chase the Tear NIAD curated by Timothy Buckwalter, Richmond, CA
2011 Recent Movements in Non-objective Art Reuten Galerie, NL
2011 1st International Festival of Non-Objective Art Organized by Roland Orpük Pont de Claix, Grenoble, France
2011 Plane Speaking McKenzie Fine Art, curated by Valerie McKenzie, NY
2010 Informal Relations Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), curated by Scott Grow
2010 Touch + Paris ParisCONCRET
2010 Hydrography: Abstracts in Watercolor RC de Ruimte in IJmuiden, curated by Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van ’t Hoog
2010 25 x 25 traveling Sydney Melbourne, New IS-Projects box, curated by Guido Winkler
2010 Fuzzy Logic Thompson Gallery The Cambridge School of Weston, MA
2009 Editionen aus Deutschland den Niederlanden und der Schweiz - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn GKG Bonn
2009 Trans: Form | Color Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Personal Space three person show with Richard Roth and Henriette van 't Hoog
2009 parisCONCRET, Paris
2009 Kosmos Light and Space curated by Guido Winkler Is projects, Leiden, curated
2009 I-S Box
2009 Trans:formal Pharmaka, Los Angeles
2009 Pour faire simple parisCONCRET, Paris
2008 T-show Polverara, Italy
2008 The Space Between San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007 Trans Weltraum, Marienplatz Munich
2007 U-shape Minatomirai Yokohama
2007 Solid Space storefront, Setagaya, Tokyo
2007 New Wall Drawings Bus-Dori Projects, Tokyo

Museum Exhibitions

2017 Openlucht Museum De Lakenhal, 100 years after De Stijl, The Netherlands
2016 LaKaserna Artspace, Bad Nieuweschans, The Netherlands
2015 Museum Waterland, Purmerend, The Netherlands, Hydrography III
2014 Visual Art Center, New Jersey, Doppler Shift
2013 De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands Hydrography
2012/13 University of Iowa Museum of Art & Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Never Underestimate a Monochrome
2010 Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Informal Relations
2008 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, The Space Between
1990 S. H. Irvine National Trust, Fresh Art, curators: Felicity Fenner/Anne Loxley
1986 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sulman Prize, Juried exhibition

Curatorial Work

2017 Visual Discrepancy, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
2014 Unbounded Root Division, San Francisco
2012 Dripping Color Amazement Galerie oqbo, Berlin
2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions, ?Brooklyn Artist's Gym, NY
2010 Touch + Paris, ParisCONCRET, Paris
2009 Trans: Form | Color Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Trans:formal Pharmaka, Los Angeles
2009 Touch, Bus-Dori Project Space, Tokyo
2008 Bus-Dori Suitcase, Bus-Dori Project Space, Tokyo

Review/publication

Visual Discrepancy, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 2017, 100 years after De Stijl ,The Link, Architectural Magazine, Berlin,2017 Lavender Strike, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 2016, Unbounded boxed set of prints 2014, essay by Joan Waltemath, Doppler Shift Catalog, 2014, Doppler NY 2013, Index 3 (publication), 2012, Doppler Europe 2012, Kunstbeed,Nr 9 Sugarmountain 2 2011, An Exercise in Seeing at Brooklyn Artist's Gym by Eric Sutphin, 2011 Catalogue Retour aux Bases / Back to Basics, Pont de Claix, Grenoble, San Francisco Chronicle November 2009, Abstract commingle well… Kenneth Baker, Peter Selz, "TRANS: Form|Color ", Exhibition Catalog Essay, Meridian, Gallery, San Francisco, The Space Between at SJICA Artweek June 2008 ARTKRUSH 2004 micro review by Christopher Elam, Chief Editor of Artkrush, Sydney Gay Games 2002 Review of Powerplay, Sydney Morning Herald October 1990. Fresh Art S.H. Irvine National Trust, Arts Editor, John McDonald Eastern Herald Art Review, Verisimilitudes, D.C. Art, Sydney Writer, Martine Ranby ArtLink, Spring 1994, Non-profits and their Artists Editorial Highlights Minimal Painting by Brent Hallard currently on show at FIRST DRAFT, SYDNEY EYELINE September 1988 Brisbane Art Publication. Brent Hallard -Imperfect Geometries. Interview with Adriane Boag, First Draft Director

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