Sydney Halela (b.1988) is a largely self-taught artist. Her figurative work is a vibrant celebration of the female form. Exploring with the play between positive and negative space through swooping organic forms, she creates a world for her women to take up space as they spill off of the canvas. Formerly of the fashion world, her design and merchandising background informs her attention to color, texture and gesture.

Her abstract work is an attempt to balance a more chaotic energy with the required discipline she attained in figuration. Each work begins free of conscious thought, deeply embracing the fluid form and welcoming the element of chance. She then moves through the work adding elements until the piece has achieved a visual center of gravity.

Sydney lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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TKees - 2022

Arfa - 2020