James Hyde (born 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American painter, sculptor and photographer who has worked in New York City since the early 1980s.
[7] When asked about his technique as an artist, Hyde says: Minimalism is where I really came from, what I looked at, and what I thought about; but I was less interested in the grid as a type of compositional device than as serialization and repetition.
[8]Hyde's work often involves a number of alternative materials that he has incorporated into his minimalist paintings, sometimes creating three-dimensional pieces that explore new planes and arrangements.
They show how Mr. Hyde thinks and what he looks at, something of his working process, and above all his desire to avoid ruts.Artists that have twenty or thirty years of art practice behind them almost invariably reveal and intensify their primary interests.
The photographs, which support these paintings, depict both the natural world and the urban built environment; several pictures show buildings in various stages of completion, all without a skin, giving us a view into the structure ... Hyde, who in a former life earned his income as a contractor, clearly understands the language of construction.
For this reason, Hyde focuses on the greatest possible tension between the heterogeneity of the single image components and the unity of the pictorial-painterly effect.