Abstract paintings
on canvas
Cognitive art
Philippe Halaburda — 2022 — New York
In 2022, the studio practice explored the relationship between architecture, psychology, color, and geopolitical space, mapping internal and external tensions through abstract systems built from acrylic, color tape, and yarn on square canvas.
Five series, twenty-seven paintings. Each one a distinct entry point into the same investigation.
All works are mixed media on square canvas. Available to collectors, galleries, and institutions.
+ Mapping emotional and spatial forces through architecture, politics,
and color — where the invisible becomes visible.
Artistic process
and emotional structure
The 2022 body of work develops a visual language built on accumulation and structural negotiation. Color tape is the primary tool, applied in deliberate sequences that establish zones, directions, and tensions across the canvas surface. Yarn introduces a second layer of connection: fragile, meandering, resistant to the straight-line logic of the tape beneath it.
Together these materials create a system — not a composition in the traditional sense, but a network of forces that mirrors the complexity of the emotional and spatial states being mapped. The square canvas enforces compression.
Every element must negotiate its position equally — there is no hierarchy of top or bottom, no preferred reading direction.
The work demands to be entered, not viewed.
Each series in 2022 begins with a single question, architectural, political, perceptual, chromatic — and builds outward from there through material decisions rather than pre-planned imagery.
The result is a body of work that sits between analysis and intuition, structure and release, where the process itself becomes as much the subject as the emotional territory it maps.
Statement
in 2022
2022 is a year of structured questioning: five distinct territories, each approached through a different analytical and emotional lens.
Architecture is examined for what it does to the people inside it. Observation is examined for what it costs to remain neutral.
Color is examined as a structural system rather than a sensation. Geopolitical force is examined as emotional residue that accumulates in the body without being named.
Renewal is examined as a psychogeographical act: what it takes to shift from exhaustion to possibility.
Together, these five series ask the same question from five different positions: what forces shape how we feel inside the spaces we inhabit?