Michael Hyman
Vivid Portrayals
June 26 - July 17, 2007
Reception:
Thursday June 28, 2007 6-8 PM
Press Release
Michael Hyman is an auto-didact painter whose artist parents encouraged him to study engineering. He obeyed their wishes, but the call of the arts was too strong for him to resist and he turned to painting, photography, and sculpture. Hyman's paintings fairly vibrate with emotions. In his canvasses he expresses his passion for living, his personal pain, and his strong admiration for the art created by his father. The nudes that are the subject of many of Hyman's paintings are formed from colors that range from vibrant to brutal. The figures are simultaneously boldly defiant and vulnerable. The works resound with symbols, and sometimes text, that refer to the artist's Russian Jewish legacy. He juxtaposes these symbols with the iconography of the Russian Orthodox church and light hearted icons of Western culture such as comic book images. Hyman grew up on a small farm outside of Baltimore, Maryland and graduated as an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major from Princeton University. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington and divides his time between that city and New York.
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