Christian Hires
Biography:
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)
Statement:
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