We’re thrilled to present “One Day,” an extraordinary exhibition by Jeff Hallbauer at Lobby Gallery, located on the ground floor of Three Bentall Center in downtown Vancouver.

Hallbauer’s work transforms the traditional art-viewing experience into an active, participatory event. By engaging with these pieces, you become part of the artwork itself, highlighting the collaborative nature of perception and imagination.

Exhibition Highlights

“Psychic”: This 7 ft neon pink monochrome masterpiece captures your attention immediately. Layered with acrylic wash, it vibrates with a pulsating energy, transcending its physical dimensions and connecting with the viewer’s inner psyche. It’s a stunning example of color affect that goes beyond the canvas.

“Cat” and “Dog” Diptych: These playful paintings draw inspiration from children’s connect-the-dot drawings. By leaving the images incomplete, Hallbauer invites viewers to mentally finish the figures, transforming them into collaborators in the creative process.

Dichromatic Installation: Featuring ten paintings rendered in optically-charged color pairs, each circle is numbered from 1 to 10. Together, they form a large-scale abstraction. Like “Cat” and “Dog,” these pieces encourage viewer participation, asking you to connect the dots across canvases and experience an invisible composition in your mind.

List of Works
“Psychic”, acrylic on canvas, 84” x 54”
“Cat”, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”
“Dog”, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10”, acrylic on canvas, 8” x 10” each

Visit the Exhibition

Join us at Lobby Gallery to explore this unique blend of color, form, and interaction. “One Day” is not just an exhibition; it’s an invitation to engage with art in new and exciting ways.

About the Artist

JEFF HALLBAUER is an interdisciplinary painter based on the unceded and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Watuth Nations, Vancouver. Notable exhibitions include “Weird Kid” at Deluge Contemporary Art, “Fruits” at Chernoff Fine Art, and “Towards a Fictional History of Colour” at Burrard Arts Foundation. In 2023, he completed a six-month residency as part of the Kölnischer Kunstverein studio program in Cologne, Germany, as well as the Similkameen Artist Residency. In 2022, he had a solo exhibition cultivated from a three-month residency in
Bonn, Germany at Das Esszimmer. In 2020, he collaborated with Swiss artist Dawn Nilo’s performance, “Performing Negotiations” as part of the 2020 Swiss Art Awards; the same year, he also participated in Avram Finkelstein’s flash collective experiment in political art-making, which screened at the Grunt Gallery Community Screen. His paintings have been acquired by corporate and private collections across Canada and worldwide. He is currently working on a solo presentation of his work at Art Cologne in November.

Exhibition: July-August 2025

Lobby Gallery
Three Bentall Centre
595 Burrard St.
Vancouver, BC V7X 1L7

Curated by Wil Aballe
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