Brian Richard Hart (American, b. 1983) Trio, 2026
Silverpoint, acrylic, and gesso on cradled wood
30.5 × 61 cm
Framed in a white floater frame
Collection of Bre Pettis
CA.2026.212
Description
Three classical portrait busts rendered in silverpoint on a pale ground, their forms built from dense diagonal hatching that reads like a halftone screen. The work distills Hart's interest in mechanical image reproduction — CMYK separations, dithering, scanning — into an ancient hand-drawing medium, so the heads appear simultaneously scanned and drawn.
