Gary Hume
Gary Hume | |
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Born | Tenterden, Kent, England | 9 May 1962
Education | Goldsmiths |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Young British Artists |
Gary Stewart Hume
Life and career
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Hume was born in 1962 in
Hume has become known for depicting everyday subjects using high-gloss industrial paints.
Hume abandoned doors in the mid-1990s, turning to paintings in household gloss paint on aluminium panel, for these often used appropriated images, including pictures of celebrities (e.g. DJ Tony Blackburn) and animals. Their forms and colours are dramatically simplified, with people being reduced to just two or three colours. Snowman (1996), for example, is made up of three shades of red, showing a circle on top of a larger circle against a lighter background. At first, Hume used mainly bright colours, but later pieces have used more muted tones.
Around 2005, Hume revisited his Door pictures, this time anthropomorphising the doors, arranging them into pairs of lovers and giving them the titles The Couple and The Argument.[4] Hume's “Yellow Window,”[3] from 2002, broke records when sold at auction at Christie's (which is now selling some other pieces of his work from George Michael's collection).[5] The work inspired a later limited edition entitled "1000 Windows," produced for London's Tate Modern in 2013.[6]
Besides his London studio, Hume maintains a second studio in a converted barn on the grounds of a former chicken farm in New York's Catskill Mountains region.[7]
Philosophy and approach to painting
In 2012, Hume made an exhibition titled 'Indifferent Owl'. Speaking about his work in 2011, Hume had stated, 'Where I live in New York, there's a wood. I heard an owl in the night. Next day I found one of those "Happy Birthday" balloons caught in the trees. It had almost deflated. I imagined the owl, utterly indifferent, watching the balloon float by as it slowly collapsed. That's how I see life. I'm the owl, totally disengaged as the balloon bobs by…'[12]
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Exhibitions
Hume represented Great Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Water series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women (again, these were gloss paint on aluminium). His work was the subject of a one-person exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 1999. Later monographic shows of Hume's work were organised at the Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, and the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, in 2004, and Modern Art Oxford mounted a survey show of his Door paintings in 2008.[2]
Recognition
In 1996, Hume was nominated for the
References
- ^ Gary Hume RA (b. 1962). Royal Academy. Retrieved: 3 August 2021.
- ^ a b Gary Hume Archived 23 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine Matthew Marks Gallery, New York/Los Angeles.
- ^ New York Times.
- ^ Gary Hume: Carnival, March 12 – April 30, 2005 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
- ^ Gary Hume (b. 1962) Yellow Window. Christies. Retrieved: 3 August 2021.
- ^ Gary Hume, 1000 Windows, 2013. Retrieved: 3 August 2021.
- New York Times.
- ^ "Gary Hume". The Line. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Gary Hume: Liberty Grip (6 March – 21 April 2013)". White Cube. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Gary Hume Liberty Grip, 2008". The Line. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Jury, Louise (11 July 2014). "New sculpture trail, The Line, to appear along east London's waterways". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Fiona Maddocks, In The Studio: Gary Hume RA Magazine Winter 2011. Retrieved, 16 January 2012
- ^ Gary Hume: Small Paintings, January 17 – February 28, 1998 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
External links
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- 8 artworks by or after Gary Hume at the Art UK site
- Matthew Marks Gallery - Gary Hume
- Images of some of Hume's later works
- An interview from The Guardian by Dominic Murphy
- Clippings from an interview by David Barrett
- BBC Collective Gary Hume gives a video tour of his exhibition Cave Paintings at the White Cube, plus a gallery of images
- Gary Hume on Artcyclopedia
- Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections