James Hyde (artist)
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1958 (age 67–68)
James Hyde | |
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| Born | James Hyde 1958 (age 67–68) |
| Years active | Early 1980s–present |
| Works | James Hyde Website |
| Awards | the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2008, the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2011, the Joan-Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2000, and the New York State CAPS Grant in 1982 |
James Hyde (born 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American painter, sculptor and photographer who has worked in New York City since the early 1980s. He has works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art[1] and the Guggenheim Museum[2] and has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum[3] and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.[3]
Hyde often employs unconventional materials when painting that range from plaster, nylon, chrome, steel to styrofoam and glass.[4] His practice has been described as an "exploration of physicality" in his experimentations with different textures and planes that often re-evaluate and expand the limits and boundaries of painting.[5]
Hyde describes his work in saying:
I think painting is never entirely about being a painted object, nor a medium in the narrow sense. I think painting is, as well, a symbolic and allegorical situation that happens to be made by a particular medium and set of materials. And really as a painter I've tried to put pressure on what a painting is and rethink it in different ways. And that's how I end up with such different ways of looking at various possibilities, especially in terms of abstract painting.[6]
In 2003 he started to incorporate photography into his work while maintaining his use of alternative materials acquired from his work as a general contractor in the late 1970s.[7]
Technique
When asked about his technique as an artist, Hyde says:
Minimalism is where I really came from, what I looked at, and what I thought about; but I was less interested in the grid as a type of compositional device than as serialization and repetition. The grid was just a means for placing those fresco panels and repeating them in a way that doesn't involve notions of space, which I've never been interested in. Repetition allowed a sequential logic—a music of visual information.[8]
Hyde's work often involves a number of alternative materials that he has incorporated into his minimalist paintings, sometimes creating three-dimensional pieces that explore new planes and arrangements.[2]
Early career
Hyde arrived as a teenager in New York City in 1977. Although he had already begun his artistic practice he had, for a time early in his career, rejected showing his work within the art world out of a "frustration of what was being shown",[8] instead devoting much of his time to his work as a general contractor. Hyde began to integrate himself more within the art world in the early 1980s.
