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Brent Hallard

1957
Australia

29 Works exhibited on Kooness

Current location

Byron Bay

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Works by Brent Hallard

Orb (Pink and Blue)

2024

Paintings , Acrylic

91.5 x 91.5cm

6927,00 €

Orb (Blue and Violet)

2024

Paintings , Acrylic

91.5 x 91.5cm

6927,00 €

Sundrop serene

2022

Paintings , Acrylic

18 x 19 x 0.1cm

598,00 €

Slow coach

2022

Paintings , Acrylic

19 x 19 x 0.1cm

598,00 €

Pale Ale

2023

Paintings , Acrylic

28 x 18.5 x 0.1cm

717,00 €

High Water

2022

Paintings , Acrylic

19 x 19 x 0.1cm

598,00 €

Come and Go

2022

Paintings , Acrylic

18 x 19 x 0.1cm

598,00 €

Comber

2022

Paintings , Acrylic

18 x 19 x 0.1cm

598,00 €

Bondi Bathers Butterfly

2022

Paintings , Acrylic

50 x 25 x 0.1cm

1200,00 €

Rope (Green and Pink)

2011

Paintings

30.5 x 23cm

600,00 €

Brent Hallard is an Australian-born abstract artist, curator and writer whose works on paper and aluminum explore minimalist iconography and monochromatic expressions.  His work fluctuates between precise, formal examinations of geographic shapes and more playful, idiosyncratic creations. He is currently living and working in Byron Bay, Australia. Education Brent Hallard earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990 and went on to earn his Master of Arts from the University of New South Wales in 1992. Technique Using mediums such as markers, watercolors and acrylics, Hallard constructs monochromatic and semi-monochromatic images of recognizable geometric forms such as squares and rectangles on paper and aluminum. The work often consists of simple forms and clusters of forms, and at other times it escapes the boundaries of line and shape. Hallard tends to focus on work that conveys precision and exactitude, while also flirting with looser explorations of color and form, creating more experimental geometric abstractions that invite additional layers of interaction from the viewer. Inspiration The artist works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images and arrangements of objects in order to challenge the perception of the viewer. His work is deeply rooted in the fundamentals of art history, especially building on the tendencies of abstraction, minimalism and the color field artists. The work also maintains a certain human quality, incorporating a sense of openness and frivolity suggesting an underlying freedom from formal limitations. Relevant quotes Kate Mothes of the Young Space Art Blog said of Brent Hallard's work: "The paintings...are wonderfully simple. The edges are so distinct and the colors so bright that they very nearly press into optical territory. Some of his pieces are perfectly symmetrical, yet the boundaries shift as we run our eyes from segment to segment, stripe to stripe, as the color plays slight tricks on our eyes. He seems to commit to symmetrical, hard-edged abstraction and then in the next instance make a work...that seems to say he knows these are expected to be hard-edged paintings, but see? Sometimes they're not. And to prove it, he'll color outside the lines." Notable distinctions Founder of the Visual Discrepancies Art Blog Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sulman Prize, Juried exhibition, 1986 Exhibitions Hallard has widely exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Europe and Asia. His work has also been included in several museum exhibitions nationally and in the Netherlands.
Selected Exhibitions   2018 Wave, curated, BSA Project Space, Northern Rivers 2 x 2, group show, Olsen Gallery, Sydney Load, Solo show, Five Walls, Melbourne 2017 0ppler, curated by Mel Prest, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn Mixed Tape, Palmer Art Projects, Sydney Chromatopia, curated by Louis Blyton, Melbourne 100 years after De Stijl, Openlucht Museum De Lakenhal Visual Discrepancy, curated for Crawford Gallery, Sydney (2 person) Trans, curated by Kyle Jenkins, Raygun Projects, Toowoomba Samenhang, with Jasper van der Graaf and the collection of Camiel Andriessen, Het Kunstgemaal, Netherlands Dirty Filthy Painting, curated by Michael Cusak, BSA Project Space, Northern Rivers Line and Space curated by Suzie Idiens, Crawford Gallery, Sydney Colour and Form, Olsen Gallery, Sydney Contemporary 17, Sydney   The Shape of Things curated for Artpiece, Mullumbimbi 2016 Drawing Conversations, National Art School, East Sydney Connect & Collect, SJICA, San Jose, CA Lavender Strike, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney The White Collection, Conny Dietzschold Gallery Hydrography lll, LaKaserna Artspace, Bad Nieuweschans, Netherlands (curated by Henriëtte van't Hoog and Iemke van Dijk) Engaged Drawing, curated Beatrice Bea, Yifat Gat, Artothèque, Miramas   2015 Nolan Projects, organized by John Adair, Nolan Foundation, Wales, UK Volume, curated by Mary Judge and Enrico Gomez, Schema Projects, New York Formal Watercolor, Museum Waterland, Purmerend, Netherlands, curated by Piet Knook Territory of Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, curated by Christine Pfister 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 Doppler Shift, curated by Mary Birmingham, New Art Center, New Jersey Abstract Realities, Jan Van de Ploeg, Brent Hallard, Richard Van der Aa University of Southern Queensland Dressed in Pink, Raygun Art Projects, Southern Queensland Hard-Edge Abstraction, curated by Kasarian Dane and Catherine Tedford, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York Paperazzi 3, Janet Kurnowski Gallery, New York 2013 Sydney Non Objective Turns 100, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, Australia The Big small Graphic Art Show, Graphic Studio Daglicht Eindhoven LIGHT SPACE PROJECTS 2013: Rituals of Exhibition II by The Talent Agency, H Gallery Chiang Mai, Thailand DOPPLER, curated by Mel Prest, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY Hydrography - Abstract in Watercolor, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands, curated by Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van 't Hoog. Rituals of Exhibition curated by Gilbert Hsiao and Giles Ryder Don't Be Selfish, Phayao Thailand Paperazzi 2 Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York Right and Other Angles curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones at Soft-spot 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 Dripping Color Amazement, curated by Brent Hallard, Galerie oqbo, Berlin Never Underestimate a Monochrome organized by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz through Abstraction at Work, sponsored by the University of Iowa Museum of Art Doppler Stop, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin and Zagreb?Supermarket 2012 IS Projects/SNO/PARISconcret, Stockholm? Paparazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011 VOID289, UNVOID curated by Naoshi Okura KOBE Biennale, Japan A Romance of Many Dimensions ?Brooklyn Artist's Gym, Brooklyn, NY Saturation Point International Survey of Reductive Art, London Gifting Abstraction Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, curated by Mariángeles Soto-Díaz, NY Sugarmountain 2 Galerie van den Berge, curated by Clary Stolte, Goes, NL Chase the Tear NIAD curated by Timothy Buckwalter, Richmond, CA Recent Movements in Non-objective Art Reuten Galerie, NL 1st International Festival of Non-Objective Art Organized by Roland Orpük Pont de Claix, Grenoble, France Plane Speaking McKenzie Fine Art, curated by Valerie McKenzie, NY 2010 Informal Relations Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), curated by Scott Grow Touch + Paris ParisCONCRET Hydrography: Abstracts in Watercolor RC de Ruimte in IJmuiden, curated by Iemke van Dijk and Henriëtte van ’t Hoog 25 x 25 traveling Sydney Melbourne, New IS-Projects box, curated by Guido Winkler 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 Trans: Form | Color Meridian Gallery, San Francisco  Personal Space three person show with Richard Roth and Henriette van 't Hoog parisCONCRET, Paris  Kosmos Light and Space curated by Guido Winkler Is projects, Leiden, curated  I-S Box Trans:formal Pharmaka, Los Angeles  Pour faire simple parisCONCRET, Paris 2008 T-show Polverara, Italy  The Space Between San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA  2007 Trans Weltraum, Marienplatz Munich  U-shape Minatomirai Yokohama  Solid Space storefront, Setagaya, Tokyo  New Wall Drawings Bus-Dori Projects, Tokyo   

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