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ARTISTS
| Bendel Hydes' work is concerned primarily with the language of light, colour and space and with the visual metaphors thereby produced to cerebrally enhance physical and conceptual possibilities. Mostly through painting, he uses the language of translucent and biomorphic abstraction to explore ways in which nature and culture interact. Exploring a "geography of spatial color" and a vocabulary of semi-figurative shapes and symbols his work addresses such issues as topographical changes, isolation, beauty, vulnerability and the character of place, to traverse the boundary between physical abstraction and emotional reality. "Specifically, I am interested in meaning that depends on context and in visual signifiers that resonate the nature of experience through that context." Hydes was born in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited at the Commonwealth Institute, London (1986), the 23rd International Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil (1996), the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (2003) and participated in numerous exhibitions internationally, including the 30th International Festival of Painting, at the Museum of Cagnes-sur-Mur, France, and “Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,†1994-96, the most acclaimed survey of Caribbean art ever assembled which traveled to eight United States museums. Works by Bendel Hydes are in the collections of the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Cayman Island National Archive, UBS, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as well as numerous private collections internationally.Bendel Hydes is featured in ‘Caribbean Art,’ a history of Caribbean painting, published by Thames & Hudson, London and in ‘He Hath Founded it Upon the Seas: A History of the Cayman Islands and its People,’ 2003. He is a Co-Founder of the Cayman Islands National Gallery and the Cayman National Cultural Foundation. |
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