James Hyde

James Hyde is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. His work is an investing in, and investigation of, painting. How and where, he asks, does it take place? Of what is it constituted? For Hyde, parts and wholes, fragments and restorations are part of the poetry and tradition of painting. How these elements are expressed and performed, Hyde believes, goes a long distance to defining a painting, its programme and its maker’s attitude. www.jameshyde.com

September 2025Critics Page

James Hyde

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I came to Nicolas Poussin indirectly—through Paul Cézanne. I understood that Cézanne admired Poussin and that made me look. From there it seemed Poussin represented Cézanne’s imperative to “render nature with the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.” Despite there being no geometric imagery in Poussin, when I came upon his paintings I saw them as geometric.

James Hyde, Particle, 2015. Acrylic dispersion with ground glass on archival inkjet print sealed with urethane and uv varnish on linen, 43 ½ × 43 ½ inches. Courtesy the artist.

September 2017Art

AGAINST SPACE

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In our culture we find “space” everywhere. It is prevalent as a type of background noise in our speech and writing. Space is taught in geometry, physics, architecture, and even in psychology, with terms like “personal space” and “psychological space.” The (often subliminal) purpose of adding space to terms that stand-alone is to make those terms more passive, and to give the term’s user distance from the subject.
Collage of parking sign advertisements by the author

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