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Grant Arthur Barnhart

For over two decades, Grant Arthur Barnhart made large-scale figurative paintings — technically commanding, critically recognized, exhibited at galleries including Ambach & Rice in Los Angeles. Then, through a series of ruptures both chosen and unchosen, the work and the life fell apart together.

What came back was stranger and more honest. The current drawings — oil pastel and pencil on newsprint — are made without a projector, without precedent, and without interest in impressing anyone. They are ceremonies. Characters arrive and get drawn. The hand knows things the mind doesn't.

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder after a lifetime of living with it, Barnhart now treats the practice itself as the medicine: unfiltered, recurring, and increasingly unafraid.