John Hylton

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 "Observatory Station" Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA

2005 “Stick and Stones, work by John Hylton”, Olive Hyde Gallery,

Fremont, CA (article, Tri-City Voice)

2004 “John Hylton, Diagrams for Professor Hawking”, San Jose Institute

of Contemporary Art (Night Moves), San Jose, CA

2003 John Hylton, Neutron Star/ Dent in the Fabric of Time,

Close Binary Pair/ Full Roche Lobe, Fish Trap/ Ghost Fish, The Santa Clara

Convention Center, City Hall

2002 "John Hylton, Diagrams for Professor Hawking", Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA

1998—at the Santa Cruz Art Center

Website

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Contact Info

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My work tends to lead me into other cultures; they are private cultures made mostly of my interior space. My sculptures are thought things as philosopher Hannah Arendt argued about works of art. The sculpture for a long time has been constructed in the ways the indigenous peoples of North America, the British Isles and of the Oceanic areas construct utilitarian and ceremonial objects. I’m creating objects to tell a new story about cosmology, the way the ancients tracked the cosmos and told stories of the stars. I am dealing with the problems of conceptually blending contemporary concerns with what I see as related structures and ideas from the earliest days of civilization. A number of concerns and interests have directed this search: the timeless mystery of the ruins and artifacts of the ancients and architecture, engineered structures and cosmology of the modern era. Working with tactile issues with a powerful and primal sensitivity it is my struggle to reconcile these disparate but fundamentally related forces, which have influenced and continue to fuel my present work by maintaining close human contact with the materials I use.

This way of using material comes from my interest in archeology and goes back to my youth when I worked for The Museum of Natural History in Dayton, Ohio digging on a Fort Ancient Indian site and regularly stopping at the Serpent Mound with my family. This construction method was furthered from being exposed to the Land Artists of the 70’s (Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, David Nash, et al.) and later from artists like Magdalena Abakanowicz, Eva Hesse, and Martin Puryear.

John Hylton

• Local Artists, Art
  

• People of Santa Cruz

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