GARY HUME RA (Royal Academician) (b. 1962, Kent, UK),

'Flags', 2013

Artist's Silk Scarf

Add a series of colorful masterpieces to your wardrobe with this Gary Hume, 'Flags' silk scarf. The scarf features miniature versions of Hume's work which have been beautifully designed into extraordinary color ways. Works included: Blackbird, Older, Tulips, Tony Blackburn and more. This scarf was designed especially for the artist's retrospective exhibition in London in 2013. Printed by Beckford Silk in England. Material: 100% pure silk. Dimensions: 34" x 34" (86.4 x 86.4 cm). Dry clean recommended. BRAND NEW.

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Gary Hume lives and works in London and Accord, New York. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at numerous museums, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, Tate Britain in London, and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium. He represented Britain at the São Paulo Biennial in 1996 and the Venice Biennale in 1999.

Hume is known for his brightly-colored, Minimalist paintings, which are usually figurative, yet highly reduced and abstracted. Hume favors bold shapes, flat planes of color, high gloss paint, and reflective surfaces. Stripping his subjects of inessentials allows him to highlight their most compelling details and to create subtle displacements and deformities that slightly disrupt the careful construction of his compositions. Simple in style, yet complex in its denial of easy interpretation, Hume's work is at once Minimalist, Surreal, Pop, and Conceptual. He says, "Art is not about absolute concrete affirmations. Art has questions and doubts and ups and downs of preference."

Hume first received critical acclaim with a body of work known as the 'Door' paintings. These minimal and abstract works, with their high gloss paint and insistent reflective surfaces, developed in the early 1990s into a broader set of motifs, such as the nude, the portrait, the garden, as well as a pictorial idiom drawn from childhood, with images of polar bears, snowmen, rabbits, owls and close-up faces. His subject matter broadened yet more through the mid 1990s to incorporate images from popular culture, making portraits of celebrity figures such as Tony Blackburn, Kate Moss and Patsy Kensit. For the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1999), he produced the 'Water Paintings', large-scale works of multiple, overlapping line drawings of nudes punctuated by flat areas of color. 'Cave Paintings', the title of his most recent show at White Cube, London, UK, featured seven marble tableaux composed of a variety of different stones set against each other in collaged sections that appear like tectonic plates. These are held together by a lead tracery that provides the edge to the expanses of color, traced by the natural faults and veins inherent in the stone itself. These monolithic compositions are hand-carved and richly decadent, combining visual motifs from the natural world with imagery suggestive of human birth and fundamental emotions.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024
'Gary Hume RA: Paintings from the 90's', Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, UK
'Gary Hume RA: Mirrors and Other Creatures', Sprüth Magers, London, UK
'Gary Hume RA: A Selection of Prints from 1994 - 2022', Lyndsey Ingram, London, UK

2023
'Gary Hume RA', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

2020
'Gary Hume RA: Archipelago', Sprüth Magers, London, UK
'Gary Hume RA: Destroyed School Paintings', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

2019
'Gary Hume RA: Destroyed School Paintings', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
'Gary Hume RA: Carvings', New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
'Gary Hume RA: Looking and Seeing', Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea
'Gary Hume RA', Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018
'Gary Hume RA', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

2017
'Gary Hume RA: Mum', Sprüth Magers, London, UK
'Gary Hume RA: Prints Pictures', Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2016
'Gary Hume: Front of a Snowman', Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
'Seeing Round Corners' (group exhibition), Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

2013
'Gary Hume', Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
'Gary Hume', Tate Britain, London, UK

2012
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
'Gary Hume: 2', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Jerwood Gallery Hastings, UK
'Gary Hume: Anxiety and the Horse', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
'Gary Hume: Flashback', Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
'Gary Hume: Beauty', Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
'Gary Hume: Paradise Paintings and the Indifferent Owl', White Cube, London, UK

2011
'Seduction: The Allure of Flowers' (group exhibition), Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, CO

2010
'Gary Hume: Bird in a Fishtank', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
'Gary Hume: New Work', New Art Centre, Salisbury Wiltshire, UK

2009
'Earth: Art of a Changing World' (group exhibition), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
'Figures and Portraits' (group exhibition), Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, NY
'Gary Hume: Yardwork', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
'Gary Hume', Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy

2008
'Gary Hume: Door Paintings', Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
'Gary Hume: Baby Birds and Things That Are Left Behind', Galleria Lorcan O’ Neill, Rome, Italy

2007
'Gary Hume: American Tan', White Cube, London, UK
'Gary Hume: Angels, Flowers and Icons', Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, UK

2006
'Gary Hume: Cave Paintings', White Cube, London, UK

2005
'Gary Hume: Carnival', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

2004
'Gary Hume: Carnival', Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
'Gary Hume: The Bird Has A Yellow Beak', Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

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