Abstract paintings
on canvas
Geometric mixed-media art
Philippe Halaburda — 2020 — New York
In 2020, the practice deepens its engagement with the urban landscape, mapping city rhythms, spatial systems, and the emotional residue of streets, blocks, and intersections through abstract deconstruction.
Paint and tape become the dual language of the work: one gestural and accumulative, the other precise and architectural.
Together they reveal what maps cannot: the hidden poetry of the urban grid.
All works are mixed media on square canvas. Available to collectors, galleries, and institutions.
Artistic process
and emotional structure
The 2020 practice operates at the border between cartography and abstraction — using the logic of mapping as both method and metaphor.
Color tape defines zones, routes, and boundaries across the canvas surface, mimicking the organizational logic of city planning while simultaneously disrupting it.
Acrylic paint moves between these tape boundaries, building color fields that carry emotional charge: the density of a crowded block, the release of an open lot, the compression of a grid that never quite aligns. The square canvas enforces the urban logic.
The city is a grid. The canvas is a grid. The work happens in the space where those two grids fail to line up perfectly.
That misalignment is where the painting begins.
Statement
in 2020
In the apparent chaos of city life, Halaburda finds beauty in deconstruction.
This 2020 body of work unravels the intricacies of urban existence, reinterpreting the familiar through paint and tape, breaking cityscapes into abstract forms, colors, and spatial tensions.
Maps guide this creative exploration. Each street, building, and intersection is a point on the canvas waiting to be reimagined.
Paint conveys the city's energy, rhythm, and essence.
Tape, precise and deliberate, acts as both architect and disruptor, reshaping the urban narrative from within.
This process isn't about erasing the urban grid, but about revealing its hidden poetry.
An invitation to view cities with fresh eyes, to appreciate the beauty that emerges when structure and spontaneity collide.