James Hyde's Billboard Syncopations at Pierogi 2000's Boiler Room

James Hyde presents his latest series at Pierogi 2000's Boiler Room project space in Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The exhibition runs until June 27 at 191 North 14th Street, between Nassau and Wythe avenues. Hyde, known for pushing painting beyond two dimensions with sculptural installations and found objects, here explores flat surfaces through photographic and painterly interplay. His Stuart Davis Group works feature blown-up photographic details of Davis's impasto printed on billboard material, over which Hyde applies flat painted shapes. This creates a visual paradox where photographic texture appears hand-applied and painted areas seem synthetic. The series engages with Stuart Davis's abstract syncopations of commercial signage while investigating shape, gesture, and intentionality. A version of this coverage originally appeared in the New York Sun on June 22, 2010.