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Email PagePhilip Vanderhyden 2007
February 21, 2007- March 31, 2007
Reception: February 21, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Philip Vanderhyden
Hudson Franklin
508 W 26th StHudson Franklin is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Philip Vanderhyden, on view from February 21 to March 31, 2007.
By taking the primary element of the brushstroke as his principal tool, Vanderhyden takes a challenging stance among contemporary abstractions while being rooted in the history of Morris Louis, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. He begins with a complex ground that is sanded almost to a polish, and the "subject" takes shape through the intricate balance of application and removal of color. Color is Vanderhydenıs more discretionary tool, and the new paintings range from lurid oranges to intense greens and violets with a grisly dark red acting as the bridge between the two.
In a recent essay about Vanderhyden's work, Lane Relyea wrote: "Vanderhyden makes the image of insubstantiality seem a byproduct of industrial toxins and materials, of a lethally corrosive process leaving the merest ghost of form. And yet these ghosts count in Vanderhyden's art as figurative, with each regally immortalized in portrait form."
Philip Vanderhyden received an M.F.A. in 2004 from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. His work was included in Hudson Franklin's "Believers" exhibition curated by Michelle Grabner in 2006. This is his first solo exhibition with Hudson Franklin.
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