James Hyde
Knot, 2005, Nylon, 210 x 180 x 36 cm ( 82 5/8 x 70 7/8 x 14 1/8 inch )
James Hyde was born 1958 in Philadelphia. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Hyde is a painter whose hybrid works invariably test the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Alive to issues surrounding the semiotics of art, his forms and structures can seem invested with the personality of letters or digits of a newly formed language. In an interplay between deconstruction and multiplication, the elements of art are isolated, before being recombined and supplemented with materials and processes from the realm of non-art, such as polystyrene, vinyl tape, light bulbs, and square timber.
Hyde is a painter whose hybrid works invariably test the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Alive to issues surrounding the semiotics of art, his forms and structures can seem invested with the personality of letters or digits of a newly formed language. In an interplay between deconstruction and multiplication, the elements of art are isolated, before being recombined and supplemented with materials and processes from the realm of non-art, such as polystyrene, vinyl tape, light bulbs, and square timber.