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Contemporary Abstract Paintings on Canvas: Plus Minus Playground 
Abstract Canvas Art Series · 2025

  • Geometric abstract paintings exploring polarity, interaction, and opposing forces.
     

  • Mixed media canvas works where plus and minus generate movement, not balance.

Cinnamom Castto — abstract painting on canvas — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick,
silicone rubber band, plastic cross, fabric, 20x20 in,
Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Cinnamom Castto

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Gather Viigo — abstract painting on canvas — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick,
silicone rubber band, plastic cross, fabric, 20x20 in,
Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Gather Viigo

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Espacc elasticity — abstract painting on canvas — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick,
silicone rubber band, plastic cross, fabric, 20x20 in,
Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Espacc elasticity

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Plus Minus Playground is a series of contemporary abstract paintings on canvas
built around the interaction of opposing forces.

Rather than treating plus and minus as fixed opposites, the work explores
how they behave as active elements within a system.

They push, resist, overlap, and reshape each other.

Mon ciel en Huahsuu — abstract painting on canvas — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick,
silicone rubber band, plastic cross, fabric, 20x20 in,
Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Mon ciel en Huahsuu

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

Behind the Jiiia — abstract painting on canvas — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick,
silicone rubber band, plastic cross, fabric, 20x20 in,
Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Behind the Jiiia

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

In search of Hayyyon — abstract painting on canvas — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band

In search of Hayyyon

Acrylic, color tape, yarn, LEGO brick, silicone rubber band, white plastic cross and fabric
on stretched canvas 51 x 51 cm - 20"x 20", USA, 2025

Available

“Opposition doesn’t cancel, it activates.”

About the Theme of Plus Minus
Playground

Plus Minus Playground is a series where I channel emotional contradictions, tension, anticipation, and playfulness through a language of abstract geometry, thread, and symbolic marks.

 

My process begins with mapping intuitive gestures onto a raw canvas: taped lines, yarn grids, LEGO bricks, and found plastic parts are arranged like fragments of a scrambled code or echoes of urban circuitry.

Detail — Plus Minus Playground — acrylic, yarn, LEGO brick on canvas Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY
Detail — Plus Minus Playground — color tape, plastic cross, rubber band on canvas Philippe Halaburda, 2025, Newburgh NY

Each "+" and "–" becomes a sign of presence and absence, a negotiation between control and disorder.

 

I intentionally build onto the back of each canvas, embedding small objects that distort the surface and fracture its expected flatness.

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