Freight+Volume announces West, an exhibition of new work by James Hyde, the artist’s first solo show in New York City since 2010. Fusing landscape photography with painted shapes and abstract forms, the artist explores themes of visual perception and reproduction, all the while challenging the boundaries of painting as a medium. Throughout his career, Hyde has paid especially close attention to the material components of his practice, deconstructing established techniques and employing variables such as seriality, repetition, and spatiality. Ranging from flattened compositions to glass boxes and frescoes, his work is wide-ranging and unencumbered by convention. He is attuned to the gulf between artistic intention and the viewer’s own comprehension, and he transforms this chasm into a discourse of sorts, using it as a source of creative
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