Hyland Mather
Artist Statement
I apply a kind of weird spiritualism to the materials I find and work on… I like to think of them as having a first ‘life’. After they have outlived their usefulness and they are thrown away, abandoned, discarded or lost, they are rediscovered, and made new again… but not too new (they have to maintain a kind of ‘artifact’ feel for me). I like to think of the lost objects themselves as ‘stoked’ that they are becoming something else.
When I make my large scale paintings, or lost object installations there is a Zen feel to the process for me for a couple of reasons. I find the process very meditative and also aesthetically I am always trying to find a ‘balanced’ feeling in my work. I rarely start with a fully formed plan when I make things, and I only know a piece is finished when it feels balanced.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Finder / Builder, Stolen Space Gallery, London, England
2016
Aleph, The Garage Amsterdam / VICE Magazine / The Jaunt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Receiver, JR Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Resonancy, Lane Meyer Projects, Denver, Colorado
2015
Shapes Making, Kallenbach Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
Wondering Bonanza, White Walls / Shooting Gallery , San Francisco, California
Group Exhibitions
2018
The Jaunt, Helium Cowboy, Hamburg, Germany
Anti – Gravity, Foosenar Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida
2017
Downshifting, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, Colorado
Form As Context, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Flourish, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum , Mesa, Arizona
2016
LAX / ORD, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Direction / Instruction, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The New Vanguard, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, California
Class Reunion II, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
LAX / LHR, Stolen Space Gallery, London, England
Direction / Instruction, CAVE Gallery, Venice, California
Direction / Instruction, Svperordinary, Denver, Colorado
Spell Check, Parlour Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Class Reunion I, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Two Person Exhibition
2017
Points, Svperordinary, Denver, Colorado
2015
The Many Places We Are, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
2014
Beautiful Times, Center for Audio Visual Expression, Venice, California
Beauty Beast, Masters Projects, Brooklyn, New York
Balancing Act, Center for Audio Visual Expression, Venice, California