Art House 310 First Friday – Matthew Hilyard & Valerie Haring
April 2, 2021 - April 25, 2021
Art House 310 First Friday – Matthew Hilyard & Valerie Haring
Opening Reception | First Friday April 2nd, 2021 | 6-10pm
Show hangs through April 25th, 2021.
MATTHEW HILYARD is a painter, photographer, art instructor & curator well known in the Wichita art community. He has painted a Keeper of the Plains at the Urban Pop-up Park. His work is included in the publication New American Paintings West Coast Edition no.120. His students have received numerous awards in local juried art competitions. He maintains his home and studio in Andover, KS. He teaches abstract painting at Mark Arts in Wichita, KS.
See more of Matthew’s work on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matthew.hilyard.1 and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matthewhilyardstudio
VALERIE HARING is a life-long Kansan. She started my educational career at Butler Community College then spent one year at Bethany before she earned a BSE from Emporia State University in Art Education and an MA from Wichita State University. Valerie is the Chair of the Art Department at Butler Community College where she has had the pleasure of teaching young artists for nearly 30 years. Valerie has two adult sons, Jordon and Jaxon. Her life partner, John Oehm, is a fellow artist; they speak the same language. She calls herself a painter, although throughout her career she has also made assemblages, sculpture, photography and digital prints. When Valerie reflects on her history as an artist, it can be traced to her childhood. Her father is a collector of things; mostly cars. She loved to “find” objects and assembled odds-and-ends into artistic creations. Valerie’s mother kept her sister and herself busy with craft projects involving sewing and homemade clay. Valerie joyously roamed the wooded area close to their country home, excited to discover a unique rock or odd animal bone. Valerie’s adulthood has been filled with intellectual, personal and artistic discovery. In 2005, she designed the construct of the striped composition in her art making. Valerie established some rules for herself which she tries to break without destroying the visual integrity of the piece. These experiences have become manifest in the artwork that she makes.
Artist Statement:
I am a formalist. The visual organization of images often supersedes my concerns for subject matter or narrative content. I strive to create a visual language inspired from images that I have garnered from the world around me. I experience the beauty and diversity of colors, textures, and shapes and reorganize and layer images into a strict construct of vertical and/or horizontal stripes. I often use my iPhone camera to capture images that may be used as reference material or layered into digital monoprints. I don’t consider myself a photographer, but a painter who uses diverse materials ranging from oil on canvas, to carved and “found” wood constructs, and digital prints. My work is often nonrepresentational, but I increasingly experience a longing to integrate bits of realistic imagery into the process in an attempt to hint at conceptualism. My work was born of a post-modern idea that the artist could make work by picking and choosing inspiration from the cultural warehouse of images that have grown out of the history of art-making, literature, modern society and personal experience. I am excited by the exploration of materials and processes of art making. I am suspect of things that come to fruition too easily. The struggle to make something that is true is one that I hold in high reverence.
See more of Valerie’s work online: https://valerieharing.wordpress.com/about/ and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/valerie.haring.7
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