Gabriel Hartley's "About That" features a nuanced palette of earthy yellows, oranges, greens, and muted browns, creating a textured landscape with organic, elemental forms. The abstract shapes seem to float and intermingle, producing a dynamic, layered composition. Hartley's technique involves a blend of gloss and matte painting, giving a play of flatness and depth reminiscent of early Modernism. The painting reflects his interest in combining contrasting elements to evoke a tension between construction and deconstruction, aligning with his exploration of abstraction and perspective within contemporary art. ...
Gabriel Hartley’s work combines optical effects and iconic markings on highly textured surfaces. His work summons early Modernism’s play with abstraction and perspective. With bold linear brushstrokes and organic, elemental shapes, Hartley’s forms play with space and movement.
His painterly effects – generated through a mix of gloss and matte paint – convey both a flatness and a depth that produce a palpable sense of tension. The dusty quality of Hartley’s impasto surfaces recall the paintings of School of Paris artist Jean Fautrier.
Hartley fuses seemingly opposing elements: the painterly and the photographic, flatness and depth, and two and three dimensionality. He simultaneously constructs and excavates – building subjects and unraveling them – to create figures at once formative and timeworn.
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