James Hyde, The Trouble with Space in Painting

Painter James Hyde speaks on his groundbreaking new book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History
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Painter James Hyde joins BFA Visual and Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program to speak on his new book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History, the first critical study of pictorial space as a modern historical construction, developing, often contentiously, in philosophy, mathematics, science and theories of art.

James Hyde is an American painter who has worked in New York City since the late 1970s. He has works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., Denver Art Museum, and Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano, Switzerland and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC). Hyde has produced numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe including shows at Maison de la Culture de Bourges; Galerie Fernand Leger/Credac in France; San Diego Museum of Art; Weatherspoon Museum, North Carolina; Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris; Brent Sikkema Gallery, NYC; Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, and David Risley Gallery, London and Copenhagen. Hyde has lectured as a visiting professor at Yale University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Skowhegan, Bard College, and the Cooper Union. Hyde received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Joan-Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.