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Brian Harte works primarily as a painter, creating stark and cinematic images of domestic scenes. Harte balances energetic painterly abstraction with tightly composed interiors, taking conceptual cues from diverse cultural figures as Franz Kafka, Philip Guston, The Brothers Quay, and Albert Oehlen. One of the key features of Brian Harte's paintings is his bold use of color and the undetermined state of the depicted figures, midway between sketchy and finished. The viewer's eye travels through the richly detailed and chaotic spaces on the large canvases, slowly finding familiar …