Hildy Maze
ArtistUSA
About Artist:
Hildy Maze was born in Brooklyn,NY,educated at Pratt Institute studying graphic design. While at Pratt Hildy worked part time and after graduation full time at Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. She continued working with Milton Glaser Inc. while free-lancing as a graphic designer/illustrator doing three- dimensional assemblages and constructions. After several years of working commercially, she turned her attention to more personal work of painting and drawing in her loft in Tribeca, NYC. However.....
Hildy's genuine education began upon meeting Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation master. Spending 10 years with Trungpa Rinpoche until his death in 1987 she studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhist meditation, Shambhala art and culture, Dharma Art, brush stroke meditation practice, Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), all based on the mirror-like expansive wakeful nature of mind. Reflecting on the years with Trungpa Rinpoche and her ongoing meditation practice and study she absorbed and translated into her process and images what he transmitted, along with her personal experience of the recognition of the awakened nature of mind.
After 12 years of living in New York City Hildy moved to East Hampton, NY to live and work in an environment she truly considers home, the ocean and bay. During the last several years Hildy Maze's work has involved simple paper. She says," paper has an organic environmental quality. It responds immediately to causes and conditions, is impermanent meaning it ages, becomes fragile, is affected by light yet will remain as those things we search for and cherish possibly in the attic or basement, an archeological site, or a memory. It is the nature of all things to decay yet remain".
Ms.Maze has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the United States iincluding New York City,Long Island City,Queens,NY, Brooklyn,NY, Santa Barbara,California, Bejing, China and many galleries on the eastern end of Long Island. She has won numerous awards. Hildy’s work is in several private collections in the U.S, Europe and Asia.
About Artwork:
I consider my work a contemplative play of looking at the clutching on to an image of ourselves, a self that keeps changing trying to keep alive the fiction of its existence. Thru improvisational familiar incidental signs and symbols I look at how we manifest our world and our grasping at a self through thoughts, emotions and the delusory notion of “I” and “mine,” self and other, and all the concepts, ideas, desires, and activities that sustain that false construction. I invite you to move into a space of speculation beyond the boundaries of the image into your own mind. Paper is used as the ground which most imitates life. Touched in any way there's a response; a finger print, wrinkle, rip,drip or tear which becomes texture and language. My creative practice is to cut thru to how this illusory discursiveness obscures the basic nature of mind.I examine how and why we create various discontents as distractions from the truth of impermanence and non-existence of 'I am' putting endless effort into trying to solidify our lives, grasping at the ungraspable. I try to counter-act this culture of speed and information overload with each piece as a flirtation with the possibility to recognize the basic pristine nature of mind’s emptiness, clarity and equality continually awake and aware.The fact that we need to grasp at all and continue grasping shows that in the depths of our being we know that the self doesn’t inherently exist. From this secret, unnerving knowledge spring all our fundamental insecurities and fears. How can we fix our world without healing these patterns of thought? As an artist perhaps I can urge thinking differently about what we cling to, what the issues are and what the solutions could be relating to ourselves and each other.
Hildy Maze
fragile fracture
- 2015
- 41 x 28 inches
- Fine Art Category: drawings
- Medium: oil on paper collage
- Origin: USA
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Issued by: Hildy Maze
- Provenance: owned by artist,Hildy Maze
- Signed: Signed lower left
- Comments:
EDUCATION & SELECTED ACTIVITIES
Pratt Institute BFA
Freelance Design
Designer/Colorist of carpets and rugs,NYC
Tibetan Buddhist Meditation w/ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Meditation Instructor Tibetan Buddhist Meditation
Dharma Art with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Naropa Institute
June 2013 Meditation/Art Seminar by Hildy Maze “Seeing from Within”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (upcoming)
2015
NAWA Gallery, Voices: An Artist’s Perspective, juried by Joan McLoughlin & Amanda Uribe,NYC
B.J.Spoke Gallery,Expo 34,curator Adrienne Rooney,Curatorial Assistant Whitney Museum of American Art,NY
Contemporary Women Artists XVII Reimagining Femmage, international biennial curator Lisa Melandri, Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014
Ceres Gallery,11th National juried exhibition,curator Lauren Hickson Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NYC
WoCA Projects,Material Matters, juried exhibition,Fort Worth,Texas
WAH Center,Williamsburg Art & Historical Center,Over the Edge:Paper Unbound,Bk’lyn,NY
Koehnline Museum of Art, Gendering Deisre:Liberation,Power,and Pleasure,Des Plaines,IL
Concordia University Kreft Gallery,“Memory,curted exhibition,Ann Arbor,MI
Boston Biennial 3,Atlantic Works Gallery,juried competition Winner,Boston,Mass.
Biennial Roadshow Marfa 2014, juried competition Winner, Marfa.Texas
Texas National,curator Jerome Witkin,Ledbetter Gallery,Nacogdoches, TX
Annex @ Core Gallery,WCA-CO/juried exhibition:Unleashed,Denver,Colorado
Art Against Addiction,Invitational Silent Auction,AshwaghHall,East Hampton,NY
Live Out Loud, Invitational Silent Auction,Private Home, East Hampton,NY
Surmang Foundation, Silent Auction Invitational, Bejing,China
Studio Montclair,ViewPoints 2014,Aljira Center for Contemporary Arts,Montclair,NJ
Woman Made Gallery,Invitational,Chicago,Ill.
WCA,Woman Made Gallery,Equilibrium, juried, Chicago, Ill.
Manhattan Arts International,Small Art Big Impact,juried, virtual
2013
Jeffery Leder Gallery,Works in Paper NYC II, LIC,NY
Southampton Cultural Center,curated by Helen Harrison,Southampton,NY
Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition (BWAC),Unhinged,Brooklyn,NY
440 Gallery, Small Works, Brooklyn,NY
Women’s Caucus For Art,Stories We Tell, curator Jessica Porter,The Phoenix Gallery,NYC
UniteWomen.org,Women's Rights:An Artists Perspective,Pam Foss Fine Art, St Michaels, MD
Mills Pond House Gallery,Childhood Memories,L.I.,NY
Manhattan Arts International, invitational, NYC, 2 exhibitions
ArtAscent, Figures, juried exhibition, on-line magazine & print
Raebec Gallery, International Art Affair, juried,virtual
Surmang Foundation, Silent Auction Invitational, Bejing,China
Projekt30,At the Edge i and II, juried, virtual
AS/Artist Studios NYC/Paris, Invitationall exhibition,curator Jill O'Conner
Art Scene Today, “The World Through My Eyes”, juried,virtual
Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, East Hampton, NY
2010-2012
Sarah House, Invitational Silent Auction, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Development of new work and working to financially support the new work and materials
2009
Solo Studio Exhibition,East Hampton,NY
2004-2008
Development of new work,transition of technique and materials
2000 -2003
Crazy Monkey Gallery, Solo Exhibition,painting/sculpture, Amagansett,NY
The Red Barn, Southampton, NY, 2 exhibitions
Lizan/Topps Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1991-1999
Lizan/Topps Gallery, Dual Exhibition, East Hampton, NY
Ann Harper Art Annex, Amagansett, NY
Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie,NY
1981-1989
Guild Hall “New Spaces/New Faces” Invitational, East Hampton
First Women’s Bank “Diversities”, NYC, NY
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY, 2 exhibitions
Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton,NY, 4 exhibitions
Guild Hall “New Spaces/New Faces” Invitational, East Hampton
East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art,”Personal Visions”East Hampton,NY
East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
SELECTED AWARDS
2014
Ceres Gallery,First Award winner,curator Lauren Hinkson Guggenheim Museum,NYC
Biennial Roadshow Marfa Winner,Painting
Boston Biennial 3,Atlantic Works Gallery,juried competition Winner,Boston,Mass.
ArtSlant, Winner, 5th 2014 Showcase
ArtSlant, Winner, 4th 2014 Showcase
ArtSlant, Winner, 3rd 2014 Showcase
ArtSlant, Winner, 1st 2014 Showcase
2013
ArtSlant, Winner, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th 2013 Showcases
Leading Artists Gallery,Colorful,Winner,Painting
Art Scene Today, Finalist “The World Through My Eyes” juried virtual
IGLLLOO International Art Prize, winner, virtual juried exhibition
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2014
Women Caucus for Art, Equilibrium,Woman Made Gallery, ISBN:978-1-939637-06-2
International Issue of Artist Portfolio MagazineArtist Portfolio Magazine,North vs, South
Artist Portfolio Magazine Northeast vs. Southwest
2013
Women Caucus for Art,"Stories We Tell", the Phoenix Gallery, ISBN:978-1-939637-01-7
Women's Caucus for Art, Unitewomen.org, Equality for All, “Women’s Rights: An Artists Perspective” ISBN: 978-1-939637-02-4
ArtAscent Magazine October 2013 V3 issue
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About Artist:
Hildy Maze was born in Brooklyn,NY,educated at Pratt Institute studying graphic design. While at Pratt Hildy worked part time and after graduation full time at Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. She continued working with Milton Glaser Inc. while free-lancing as a graphic designer/illustrator doing three- dimensional assemblages and constructions. After several years of working commercially, she turned her attention to more personal work of painting and drawing in her loft in Tribeca, NYC. However.....
Hildy's genuine education began upon meeting Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation master. Spending 10 years with Trungpa Rinpoche until his death in 1987 she studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhist meditation, Shambhala art and culture, Dharma Art, brush stroke meditation practice, Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), all based on the mirror-like expansive wakeful nature of mind. Reflecting on the years with Trungpa Rinpoche and her ongoing meditation practice and study she absorbed and translated into her process and images what he transmitted, along with her personal experience of the recognition of the awakened nature of mind.
After 12 years of living in New York City Hildy moved to East Hampton, NY to live and work in an environment she truly considers home, the ocean and bay. During the last several years Hildy Maze's work has involved simple paper. She says," paper has an organic environmental quality. It responds immediately to causes and conditions, is impermanent meaning it ages, becomes fragile, is affected by light yet will remain as those things we search for and cherish possibly in the attic or basement, an archeological site, or a memory. It is the nature of all things to decay yet remain".
Ms.Maze has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the United States iincluding New York City,Long Island City,Queens,NY, Brooklyn,NY, Santa Barbara,California, Bejing, China and many galleries on the eastern end of Long Island. She has won numerous awards. Hildy’s work is in several private collections in the U.S, Europe and Asia.
About Artwork:
I consider my work a contemplative play of looking at the clutching on to an image of ourselves, a self that keeps changing trying to keep alive the fiction of its existence. Thru improvisational familiar incidental signs and symbols I look at how we manifest our world and our grasping at a self through thoughts, emotions and the delusory notion of “I” and “mine,” self and other, and all the concepts, ideas, desires, and activities that sustain that false construction. I invite you to move into a space of speculation beyond the boundaries of the image into your own mind. Paper is used as the ground which most imitates life. Touched in any way there's a response; a finger print, wrinkle, rip,drip or tear which becomes texture and language. My creative practice is to cut thru to how this illusory discursiveness obscures the basic nature of mind.I examine how and why we create various discontents as distractions from the truth of impermanence and non-existence of 'I am' putting endless effort into trying to solidify our lives, grasping at the ungraspable. I try to counter-act this culture of speed and information overload with each piece as a flirtation with the possibility to recognize the basic pristine nature of mind’s emptiness, clarity and equality continually awake and aware.The fact that we need to grasp at all and continue grasping shows that in the depths of our being we know that the self doesn’t inherently exist. From this secret, unnerving knowledge spring all our fundamental insecurities and fears. How can we fix our world without healing these patterns of thought? As an artist perhaps I can urge thinking differently about what we cling to, what the issues are and what the solutions could be relating to ourselves and each other.
