Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Brian Hallas has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Brian Hallas is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in New Jersey, USA. He was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 29th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his artwork to be showcased in this feature.
His Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting his artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Brian’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of his abstract digital floral photographs that were submitted to this competition.
Brian Hallas is a dynamic and multifaceted artist from Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey, celebrated for his innovative approach to abstract digital photography. His work, primarily crafted using an iPhone, stands out for its vivid use of color, texture, and surreal content. By manipulating images through various apps and blending techniques, Brian creates striking, painterly abstractions that immerse viewers in otherworldly gardens and dreamlike scenes. His daily practice of creating and sharing these works is deeply rooted in a response to the chaos of modern life, offering a moment of sensory immersion and escape.
Brian draws inspiration from nature, particularly through his work as a gardener at a local nursery. This connection to the natural world seamlessly blends with his digital artistry, allowing him to continue evolving his visual style and creating works that speak to a wide audience. Through his photography, Brian Hallas weaves together technology and nature into a tactile visual tapestry, leaving a lasting impact on viewers worldwide.
As an abstract digital photographer, I create hallucinatory gardens and landscapes of the imagination - a realm of intense colors, shapes, and textures. I work exclusively with my iPhone to explore what surprises that apps, layering, and blending give me. To this end, my inspiration is the natural world of my surroundings, and I continue to evolve my visual style by weaving together technology and nature into a tapestry of sensory exploration.
My improvisations often result in painterly abstract images that give viewers a tactile visual experience. I like to entice viewers on an adventure to see the unseen, finding perspectives we don’t normally observe without wearing a very different set of lenses.
My tastes are stimulated by an eclectic spectrum of artists from every art form, era, and genre whose spirits never fail to encourage my creativity. At nearly 72 years old, I have turned to photography as my primary means of creativity, after a long, rich life collaborating in film, music, and particularly the theater, as a sound designer in NYC. I’m an Outsider and a Late Bloomer, and shaping and sharing these abstract photographs is my response to the chaos of modern life, offering both my viewers and I moments of sublime immersion and escape.
To learn more about Brian Hallas and to see more of his art, please visit his website.
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MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – May 18, 2017 / - Tasmanian artist Athalie Taylor has been invited by Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to show printed works from her recent on-line Abstract “Solo Exhibition” awarded through Light, Space and Time. The exhibition runs from June 23 – July 6 2017.
Born in Ballarat, Victoria Athalie has lived in Tasmania since 1970. Originally trained in the textile and clothing areas, she later completed art qualifications leading to a change of direction in her teaching career. More recently she has embraced photography leading to her passion, digital art.
Athalie is excited and motivated by art that included simple lines, geometric shapes that may be straight, curved, and those that meander through the piece, circles, and any patterned works, especially textured pieces. She is drawn by strong colours, simple compositions, unusual ideas and aspects. Many artists inspire her including Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Hans Hoffman and others.
She uses her camera in unexpected non-conventional ways and is constantly forcing it to do what she wants, to get the starting point she needs for an artwork. The subject can be out of focus or taken pin sharp, it all depends on what she is trying to achieve at the time. Some effects are achieved in the camera while others are developed and created in post processing.
Often there are different versions of the same subject melded together to make the piece. Ideas develop and grow within the creation of the piece; she often gets lost in the process and when she’s done wonders how she finally reached that point.
On the more graphic side of her art she explores shapes; circles, lines, angles, triangles, all kinds of forms. She often distorts and manipulates sections or all the piece. Often the graphic creations are added to the photographic idea, other times they stand alone.
She draws, she photographs, she designs, she creates, just for the love of it; the pure joy it gives her every day.
“I am very excited about the opportunity to exhibit my work at the Brunswick Street Gallery,” commented Athalie. “My purpose as an artist is to create art that will brighten and lift the spirits of the viewers. I am honored to participate in an event which aligns so closely with my personal goals of promoting emerging and established artists”.
Athalie has shown her work in several exhibitions, including her first solo exhibition (Cities) in 2015. More recently she was awarded an online solo exhibition through Light, Space and Time. That work can be viewed from the following link https://tinyurl.com/https-www-athalie-taylor.
Athalie’s work has been published in several issues of “Living the Photo Artistic Life” magazine including a double page spread covering her first solo exhibition in 2015. More work has been shown in the "Artists Down Under - Australia and New Zealand" magazine.
She has artworks in private collections across Australia. For further information about Athalie’s work visit her on-line gallery at https://artboja.com/art/eka9sg/ or email athalie.taylor@gmail.com
Contact Information:
Athalie Taylor
Phone: +61 3 63447961
Email: athalie.taylor@gmail.com
URL: https://artboja.com/art/eka9sg/
