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Frank Hyder

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• 2016

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• Offset Lithograph; Relief Print

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• Image/sheet: 23 x 23″

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• 20 prints in this edition

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About the Print

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From the Artist

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I get some really interesting effects that come from photography, I get some really interesting effects that come from painting. And there’s a relationship between the printing process, the painting process, and then the next stage, which I call the improvisation process, slowly conceiving a landscape that will fit the irregular cuts that have been made into the prints.n_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}

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Frank Hyder’s Frontiers series extends and translates an innovative collage-like approach he first developed for painting into a new medium: printmaking. In his Frontiers series, Hyder took digital images—often of human faces—shot from existing original painted works, printed them on tracing paper, cut them, and then pasted the resulting fragments onto translucent mylar. He completed the process by painting on the mylar invented forest-like landscapes—”frontiers”— that surrounded and incorporated the digital fragments.

nDuring his residency at Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Hyder translated the creative sensibility, imagery (such as faces peering through a forest’s dense foliage toward the viewer) and composition of his Frontier series—and evoked other aspects of their formal qualities, such as texture—into offset lithograph relief prints.n_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}nnn

Frank Hyder

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AmericannBorn October 29, 1951 in Audubon, NJ

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About the Artist

nFrank Hyder was born in Audubon, NJ. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME.nnHyder has participated in more than 200 group shows and over 100 solo exhibitions throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, including ten individual exhibitions in New York City; in Venezuela at the Museum of Modern Art in Caracas, Museo Jacobo Borges, Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, Museo de Artes-Universidad de los Andes, and Museo de Arte de Coro; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia; Carnegie Museum, Roseville, CA; National Museum of Catholic Art and History, Washington, DC; and The Noyes Museum of Art, Galloway Township, New Jersey.nnHyder is one of ten artists whose monumental inflatables formed the Giants in the City exhibition during Art Basel Miami in 2013. He also had a six-month exhibition at the Philadelphia International Airport. He was among 80 artists selected as part of an exhibition of graduates of the Maryland Institute College of Art celebrating the school’s 160th anniversary. His Janis Project was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Art Students League of New York; and Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. He was selected to create a work for the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, and a ceramic installation in Oxnard, California. He has created numerous murals with the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia and an interactive project with the Chicago Transit Authority.nnHyder was chairman of fine arts and a faculty member at Moore College of Art & Design and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.nnHyder’s works have been featured in the books Color in Contemporary Painting, The Art of Watercolor, The Song of the City, and Artist Homes and Studios. He lives and works in Miami, FL.n_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}