Christian Hires

Education

B.A. Rowan University

Exhibitions

One Person Shows

2018               Hires & Hires Pop-Up, 221 Glen St., Glens Falls, NY

2013               Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2002               Performing Arts Center, Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ

1980               National Art Center – SoHo, New York, NY

1979               Atlantic City Art Center, Atlantic City, NJ

1978               Living Buildings Program, The Federal Building, Philadelphia, PA

1977               Washington Street Gallery, Cape May, NJ

1977               Ocean City Cultural Arts Center, Ocean City, NJ

 Juried Exhibitions

2024              Limitless (Online Exhibition), Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2023             Abstract (Online Exhibition), Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2023             Group Exhibition Galerie Makowski, Zhuhai, Peoples Republic of China

2023             Group Exhibition Galerie Makowski, Berlin, Germany

2023             Group Exhibition Galerie Makowski, New York, NY

2023             LA Art Show, European Pavillion, Galerie Makowski, Berlin, Germany

2021             Abstract Catalyst, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR

2019             Expressions, North Country Arts, Glens Falls, NY  (Gold Award)

2018             Members Show, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, NY

2018             Aesthetic Movement, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, NY

2017             Members Show, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, NY

2015             The Black and White Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY

2014             Creative Tension, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ

2012             Art Miami, Miami, FL – David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2011             8th Annual Snap to Grid Exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art,

                          Los Angeles, CA

2011             Group Exhibition, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2011             Traversing Dimension, Caladan Gallery Online, Cambridge, MA

2011             The Power of Self, Artists Wanted Online, New York, NY

2010             7th Annual Snap to Grid Exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art,

                          Los Angeles, CA

2009             Geometric Sequence – Random or Otherwise, Caladan Gallery Online,

                          Cambridge, MA

2005             New Jersey Artists Annual, The Noyes Museum, Leeds Point, NJ

1996             Designers Who Paint – USITT Annual Conference, Fort Worth, TX

1980             Group Show – Galerie Internationale, New York, NY

1979             Art Expo NY – New York Coliseum (7-65)

Artist Statement

 “My intent is to research, develop, and present a confluent of mathematics, science and aesthetics in a unique visual experience. The interaction of points, lines, shapes and perimeter is the intended narrative. These images avoid representational, social or political commentary. They are my personal dialect within the language of vision.”

Christian Hires is a Visual Artist whose work is best described as Geometric Abstraction, a genre he has embraced for 45 years.  His passionate commitment to research and development of visual phenomena was fostered within him as a child.  Visits to the New York World’s Fair in 1964, and to the Museum of Modern Art Exhibition, “The Responsive Eye,” in 1965, cultivated an interest in modern architecture and painting – a type of painting outside the boundaries of portraiture and landscape, into experimentation and development of Abstraction.  Working primarily in black and white (the ultimate contrast), this work explores the raw power of a graphic image.  Instead of descriptive titles, the Artist catalogues the work via an alphanumeric system, with the prefix S.D., an abbreviation to the term Sequence Development