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Alain Biltereyst

Leaving The House

July 11 – August 16, 2019

Larger individual view of Alain Biltereyst work, black on white wood panel

Untitled, 2019
Acrylic on panel
46.5 x 34.5 inches 
 

Large geometric abstract work from Alain Biltereyst

Untitled, 2019
Acrylic on panel
46.5 x 34.5 inches 
 

View of large Alain Biltereyst work

Untitled, 2019
Acrylic on panel
46.5 x 34.5 inches 
 

Individual shot of small Alain Biltereyst work on wood panel

Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on panel

9 x 6.7 inches

Small geometric Alain Biltereyst work on wood panel

Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on panel

9 x 6.7 inches

Close up of small Alain Biltereyst work, two red lines on white wood panel

Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on panel

9 x 6.7 inches

Close up of Alain Biltereyst work

Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on panel

9 x 6.7 inches

Small multicolored Alain Biltereyst work

Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on panel

9 x 6.7 inches

Close up of smaller Alain Biltereyst work on wood panel

Untitled, 2019

Acrylic on panel

9 x 6.7 inches

Gallery view of Alain Biltereyst exhibition
Three large Alain Biltereyst works
Gallery view of two large Alain Biltereyst works
Gallery view of eight small abstract works
Gallery view of seven small geometric abstracts
Gallery view of Alain Biltereyst works, large and small
Gallery view of Alain Biltereyst works
four small geometric abstracts from Alain Biltereyst

Jack Hanley Gallery is excited to present Leaving the House, Alain Biltereyst’s third solo show with the gallery. In this exhibition, Biltereyst continues to abstract patterns and designs from his everyday surroundings while introducing new formats and color schemes to his paintings.

Based on graphic designs from advertising, logos, and commercial signage, Biltereyst’s acrylic works on panel combine geometric abstractions with a painterly gesture. Largely in primary colors and black or white, the works reveal minimal but complex patterns that often play with optical illusions of depth and space. Their carefully calculated patterns of rectangles, lines, triangles or parallelograms stand in contrast to their free and unrestrained use of paint that leave traces of the painter’s hand in visible brushstrokes, irregularities, and underlying layers of paint that shimmer through the surface.   

The seriality of their designed source materials is mirrored in their own standardized formats and imagery. Especially in the small paintings, the wood panels’ thickness underlines the paintings object-like quality. Referencing modern painting history while building his very own visual language, Biltereyst builds bridges between mass-produced quotidian designs and uniquely hand-crafted paintings.                       

Alain Biltereyst (b. 1965) lives and works in Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg and Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium. The artist also participated in group exhibitions at Barry Whistler Gallery, Joshua Liner, New York, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, The B&W Project #5 at Transmitter, Herentals, Belgium, Spaghetti Code at Viewing Room, Los Angeles.