Philippe Halaburda is an artist based in Aix-en-Provence, South of France who combines the genre of abstract painting with the suggestion of figuration. Halaburda’s inpiration is the condensation of diverse living, found within the layered structure of city landscapes. The artist combines colors, surfaces and textures that reflect an ambiance of fleeting moments. With a focus upon shifting change, juxtaposing hues and brush strokes embody movement as well as different moods that are manifest throughout urban environments.

Baarow Grovve (2015) is a predominantly black and white painting, and portrays an empty street in New York City, lined with low-rise brick buildings. With the curb line set at a sharp angle, the street moves from the front to the back of the picture plane. Halaburda fills the foreground with a swirl of gray, red and purple pigments that emerge from a QR-code seen in the lower right corner. This painting sets the idea of the “new” against one previously, from the 19th-century.

Gansewoort (2015) discards the painted canvas for a stretch of found cardboard and shows a series of marks in blue, yellow, red, white, black and beige. The subject is movement that appears through the random organization of color and appears again in Minetta I. (2015) As part of a series on white paper, Jaloppi Canaal Centraal Paark (2015) evokes the history of New York as a Dutch colony, previously known as New Amsterdam and appears as a cartographic rendering of Manhattan’s Central Park.

Philippe Halaburda received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1995 from the EDTA Sornas School in Paris. Since then his art has appeared in numerous group exhibitions throughout France. The artist has had solo exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Belgium and the United States. Since 2013 Halaburda has had two exhibitions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From April to June 2015, the artist held a residency at NARS in Brooklyn, New York for a new series titled “Mapping New York.” He will have an upcoming solo exhibition in 2016 at the Lion Heart Gallery, located in Pound Ridge, New York.