Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present a selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Frank Hyder. Following the gallery’s New York exhibition 1970s & Now earlier this year, the Beacon presentation explores the connections between Hyder’s painterly origins and the sculptural language that has defined much of his career.
Several years ago, a chance encounter led to the rediscovery of nearly 200 paintings created in the early 1970s and stored in Hyder’s studio for over five decades. These works reveal a confident artistic voice at a formative moment, with figures, interiors, and everyday scenes rendered with a sensitivity to light and surface. Their rediscovery prompted Hyder’s return to painting, yielding nearly one hundred new works over the past year, including paintings on canvas and dimensional painted constructions cut from plywood.
Figurative and largely observational, Hyder’s recent works depict people he knows, intimate domestic scenes, swimmers, animals, and moments drawn from everyday life.