Oil Pastel · Pencil · Painting · Digital — 2008 / 2026
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Ritual marks. Mythic characters. The work of an artist who had a career, walked away from it, and came back rawer and freer than before.
Grant Arthur Barnhart
Grant Arthur Barnhart has been making large-scale works for over two decades — widely exhibited, reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Juxtapoz, and the Seattle Times. Solo shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, Berlin, Luxembourg, and New York. Gallery representation on both coasts.
The current practice merges analog and digital — oil pastel and pencil drawings on newsprint become characters summoned into AI-constructed environments, creating worlds tailored entirely to his own vision. The composite works continue an investigation begun in the mid-2000s — constructing fictional environments where art and mythology coexist. The tools changed. The question didn't.
Barnhart has lived with bipolar disorder his entire life, diagnosed only recently. He makes work because of it, not despite it.
Born 1978. Based in New York.
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Original works available. New drawings on newsprint, 24 × 36 inches. Select paintings and digital works also available. For pricing, availability, or to discuss acquiring work, reach out directly.
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