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Harold Ancart

Harold Ancart (Born 1980) is active/lives in New York.  Harold Ancart is known for Exploration of space and color, installations, painting, photographs, drawings, sculptures.

Harold Ancart, Exhibition review by Art Viewer at C L E A R I N G, New York City, May 1-June 17, 2018

Harold Ancart’s horizon line is limitless. It extends through numerous paintings, photographs, sculptures, and drawings in an inexhaustible exploration of painterly space and color. Though Harold Ancart’s new paintings are figurative, they may also be among his most abstract. In his work, subject matter serves as an alibi for the paint to be pushed into the canvas, says the artist.

Once again the paintings reveal a series of images that are connected to a delirious longing for escape, or connectivity to one’s place. Ancart has pared down his imagery to elemental forms while amplifying scale and tonality. Clouds, fires, icebergs, and imposing flora are the identifiable shapes he uses to strip landscape painting down to its rudiments. The irreducible qualities of painting, and of drawing, have long been Ancart’s driving concern. Ancart fuses the techniques of both,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2224 characters.]  Artist bio

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