Brian Harte
Working from a small studio at the back of his home in Thurles, Co. Ireland, where he lives with his wife and two small children, Brian Harte (b. 1978) uses the experiences of his daily life to create complex paintings of various scale. Much of his work expresses the landscape of interior spaces, where daily experiences, figures, and/or routines, exist simultaneously. Many describe banalities such as toys left behind, sweaters, crumpled beds, but they also feature the unexplainable such as dismembered legs, floating tables, and Egyptian heads. “As soon as you think there’s a narrative there, it’s gone,” he says. “But I’m looking for that. I want them to be on the edge of failure all the time.”
Brian Harte (b. 1978, County Tipperary, Ireland) graduated from the Crawford College of Art, Cork in 2002. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Art Antwerp with Tatjana Peters Gallery Ghent, Belgium (2022), MAKI Gallery, Tokyo (2023, 2021), Annarumma Gallery, Napoli Italy (2021), GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany, (2020, 2019, 2017), These Days Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2020) and Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, USA (2018). His work is held in both public and private collections, notably, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany and The Crawford Municipal …
Working from a small studio at the back of his home in Thurles, Co. Ireland, where he lives with his wife and two small children, Brian Harte (b. 1978) uses the experiences of his daily life to create complex paintings of various scale. Much of his work expresses the landscape of interior spaces, where daily experiences, figures, and/or routines, exist simultaneously. Many describe banalities such as toys left behind, sweaters, crumpled beds, but they also feature the unexplainable such as dismembered legs, floating tables, and Egyptian heads. “As soon as you think there’s a narrative there, it’s gone,” he says. “But I’m looking for that. I want them to be on the edge of failure all the time.”
Brian Harte (b. 1978, County Tipperary, Ireland) graduated from the Crawford College of Art, Cork in 2002. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Art Antwerp with Tatjana Peters Gallery Ghent, Belgium (2022), MAKI Gallery, Tokyo (2023, 2021), Annarumma Gallery, Napoli Italy (2021), GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany, (2020, 2019, 2017), These Days Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2020) and Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, USA (2018). His work is held in both public and private collections, notably, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany and The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland. More recently, it has been acquired by the Arts Council of Ireland, and the OKETA Collection Japan.
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