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Winter Solstice 84" x 96" Click image to view enlargement. |
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Earth IV Click image to view enlargement. |
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The work of Bendel Hydes is concerned with the sensory world of sight, sound and touch and in the visual metaphors thereby produced to cerebrally enhance physical and conceptual possibilities. Concerned primarily with painting, his work employs the language of translucent and biomorphic abstraction to explore ways in which nature and culture interact, reflecting on both the rational and ritualistic concerns of perceiving these opposites. Through a "geography of spatial color" and a vocabulary of semi-figurative shapes and symbols, the artist addresses issues such as beauty, isolation, vulnerability and the character of place to traverse the boundary between physical abstraction and emotional reality, thus forming the narrative that binds the work tog Wether. The duration of a passing sound vibration or the feeling of the wind by the ocean may illucidate an experience to be reconciled or the color and movement of a particular shape may produce a new imaginary paradigm. The mind and memory of Hydes' work is in the process.
Whether it is applying continuous washes and drips
of color over
another, sculpting and mixing paint with another substance, or
in the gesture, he aims to question the aesthetics
of the materials
he uses. In a recent environmental work, Starpath, he used turtle-grass
and sea-debris to create giant stars along a stretch
of deserted
beach, thereby merging land, sea and sky in one universal gesture.
He says. "I am interested in meaning that depends
on context and in visual signifiers that resonate
the nature of experience
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born: Cayman Islands Education: 1976 Clark University, B.A., 1974 Caterbury College of Art, England 1971-1972 Liverpool College of Art, England
2005-2006 Winter Solstice IV The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains NY Curator: Tedd Stratis 2004 In Polytechnicolor Michael Steinberg Fine Art New York NY 2004 Degrees of Abstraction Alpan Gallery Huntington NY 2003 Solo Exhibition: Soundings: Selected Works National Gallery Cayman Islands 1998 30th International Festival of Painting Museum of Cagnes-sur-Mer France 1996 Soundings in Fathoms 23rd International Bienal de Sao Paulo Brazil 1995 Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting & Sculpture North American Traveling Exhibition Center for Fine Arts, FL New Orleans Museum of Art, LA Wadsworth Atheneum, CT African American Museum, TX Middlebury College Museum, VT Center for African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Center for the Arts, FL Latin American Art Museum, CA 1992 Abstract Art in the 90's: Where is it? Where is it going? Sound Shore Gallery Stamford CT 1992 First Caribbean & Latin American Biennale of Painting Galeria De Arte Moderno Dominican Republic 1990 The South of the World Museum of Contemporary Art Marsala Italy Museum of Contemporary Art Palermo Italy 1986 Solo Exhibition: New Paintings Commonwealth Institute London England 1984 Interplay 084 Albany Institute of History and Art Albany NY 1983 Newcastle Salutes New York UK Exhibition Newcastle Polytechnic Newcastle-Upon-Tyne England Arcade Gallery Harrogate England Yorkshire England 1982 XXI International Drawing Exhibit Joan Miro Foundation Barcelona Spain Awards: 2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2001 Artist-in-Residence, Santa Fe Art Institute Santa Fe NM 1996 Award of Excellence Cayman National Cultural Foundation Public Collections: National Gallery of the Cayman Is. UBS (Cayman Islands) Ltd. Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (Cayman) Ltd. Galeria de Arte Moderno Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Reviews: 2006 Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times 2003 Bendel Hydes: Soundings 1989-2001; National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Henry Muttoo, (catalogue) 2003 Lucid Dreaming: Here and There (are closer than you think), Beth Elaine Wilson, Chronugram Magazine 2002 Interview with Henry Muttoo Foundation, The Arts & Culture Journal of the Cayman Islands 2002 Joseph Walentini/Janet Shapiro, Abstract Art Online 1996 Artista Caribenho Bendel Hydes, Ribeirao Preto, O Diario, Sao Paulo Brazil 1996 Hydes representa Ilhas Caima..., Antonia Chagas, O Estado de Sao Paulo, Caderno 2 1996 Vivian Raynor, New York Times
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