Daniel Humair: Color and Motion
Daniel Humair’s mixed media works are a new addition to the Gallery. Light, color, motion and joy are part of Humair’s language. Of Swiss origins, Humair now lives in Paris, traveling each year to Africa for an extended holiday. I found Daniel’s paintings because I was looking for a CD that was out of print. Humair is a reknown jazz drummer and his CD with Kenny Baron was impossible to find elsewhere.
Entering his website, I got lost in his imagery and the vibrance of his work. His abstractions give visual form to the spontaneity and mastery that Humair brings to his music. We spoke for more than a year via e-mail and phone and late last year we met in New York City.
Humair is becoming as well known for his artwork as he is for his drum work, and can be found in galleries in Paris and throughout Europe. You can also visit his website to see more images – www.danielhumair.com – but, it’s better to see them in person to fully enjoy the experience and make it your own. You can make your own comments, also, below.
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RECEPTION SUNDAY, JULY 6, from 1 – 3 pm
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Right now, I have some background information on Judy Hoyt, the upcoming show and why we chose TWICE TOLD TALES for the title. While we always have Judy’s work in the Gallery, this one-person show is an opportunity to see a broad body of new work. I know many of you have been awaiting this anniversary show.
USING FOUND MATERIALS
The idea of recycling materials began for Judy Hoyt in her senior year at SUNY New Paltz in the early 80s, when she took metalsmithing as her final elective. That was actually when I first met Judy. Instead of opting for the pristine sheets of copper and other metals, Hoyt found herself loitering about the trash bin, where she found the negative spaces and cut apart pieces of metal intriguing.
Since then, she has been using found objects and sheets of paper, fabric and metal. Judith Hoyt creates works that are akin to short stories. Materials at different stages of abuse, disintegration and decomposition come into their own again. One can look at them for long periods of time and wonder about the figures and imagery in her work and how the prior uses and lives of the materials have fused with her vision. And yet, the materials have their own history, with Hoyt creating a sophisticated visual environment for the second “telling” of their stories.
THE TALE OF TWICE TOLD TALES
The idea of materials being used for a second purpose and that Judy’s pieces are so rich in “story” were two reasons I chose “Twice Told Tales” as the title for this exhibition of Hoyt’s work. Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a short story collection in two volumes first published in the spring of 1837. The stories had all been previously published anonymously in magazines and annuals hence Hawthorne’s title to denote their “second telling.” Hawthorne republished them because he believed that it was important for the public to be aware of the contemporary American writers, and that his prior anonymity was a disservice to himself and other writers and artists. That really brought it home for me. We have an opportunity at be Gallery to make Hoyt’s work – and the other local artists in the gallery – known and accessible to our own community, and to bring some of our local talent into the light, right here in the Hudson Valley.
AN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, TOO or TWO, ACTUALLY.
JUDY Hoyt was the first artist beGallery presented when opening in July of 2006. We are thrilled to have Judy back for our second anniversary celebration – another “twice” it seems!”
I hope you will come and join us for the celebration and for Judy’s show. Come anytime, but if you can be there for the Reception and Gallery talk, we can all celebrate together.
See you there!
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