Brooklyn based artist Maya Hayuk is a prolific muralist, photographer, printmaker, painter, illustrator, and documentarian. Her fearless attraction to wild color and a genre-bending mix of graphic design, graffiti, illustration, and abstraction has earned her a wide international audience.
Hayuk’s work overflows with a uniquely cultivated handmade aesthetic. Part punk, part psychedelic explosion, her paintings, prints and murals display unbridled enthusiasm. Her monograph “Just Good Vibes” describes the work as “multicolored diamonds morph into rainbows on public walls, day glow birds and flowers sprout extra appendages appearing both beautiful and menacing, and everything eschews logic while making perfect aesthetic sense. Hayuk’s bold images of colorful beauty that are at once visceral, ethereal, humorous and political.”
Maya Hayuk: Feeling Space will open February 5th and remain on view through March 31st, 2010 at Gallery 16. The night will feature live music by Pale Horse.
Catch a recent video interview with Maya Hayuk here.
