Hildy Maze - Artist Spotlight Solo Art Exhibition

Hildy Maze is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of June 2018. She is best known for her oil and paper abstract drawing and painting collages. These contemplative works were developed with the view that art has the capacity to infuse our experience with awareness of our inherent nature.

Hildy’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of June 2018. The gallery will promote Hildy and her work on the Fusion Art website, in Fusion Art’s Artsy.net Gallery, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 2000 buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets. Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Hildy’s Biography and Artist Statement below as she describes her history and inspiration in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see her exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Hildy’s work, please visit her website.

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Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Hildy and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Hildy Maze’s Biography

Hildy Maze, is of Turkish, Russian and Austrian heritage. She is best known for her oil and paper abstract contemplative drawing, painting collages, exploring the investigation of mind. Though her process and handling of materials she intimately describes the ways we hide from the flawless nature of mind we all have. These contemplative works were developed with the view that art has the capacity to infuse our experience with awareness of our inherent nature. Her work is influenced by her practice of Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Essentially she views her work as an evolving inquiry. Hildy continues to live in East Hampton, NY, make art, and to study the principles of Buddhist contemplative philosophy, a pursuit not unlike cleaning the dust off the windows in a house in order to see the world and oneself more clearly and precisely, with less aggression and with more equanimity, kindness and humor. Her work is intended to be as intimate and accessible as the natural, inherent nature of mind itself. As it is described in one Buddhist text, “Buddha (that is, direct awareness) dwells in the palm of your hand.”

Hildy has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. including NYC, Long Island City, Brooklyn, California. She has won numerous awards and is in several private collections in the U.S, Europe and Asia.

Hildy Maze’s Artist Statement

My work is driven by my desire to investigate the mind through art. None of us can escape the habit of projecting thoughts and concepts onto reality itself—onto what Buddhists would call “pure perception.” But through awareness of our inner, deeply ingrained conceptual biases we can open new windows into our mind. By contrast, when mind is immersed in uncontrolled emotions and errant beliefs, we cannot see clearly, as though we were trying to peer through a dirty window. This contemplative approach to my work involves an attempt to visually describe these obscuring veils, drawing upon both my personal experience and my experience of meditation practice. By delving beneath the turbulence of thoughts we can uncover in ourselves a spaciousness behind all the discursiveness, changes and deaths of the world. I view this as the most rebellious act of all imbued with social impact and non-conformism to actually recognize and cut through our habitual thought patterns to glimpse this spaciousness. Essentially my work is about all of us and the empty, clear and unconditional nature of mind we all have. When we know the nature of our mind we will know the nature of our world.

Our active mind creates collages of thoughts and patterns, as in a dream. If we examine our thoughts, we can see they are fragmented pieces, empty of solidity. My studio floor is covered with a vast tapestry of painted paper—ripped, aged, and often walked on for days or months. This allows the process and rhythm of art-making to come alive with spontaneity and unpredictability. I discovered a rugged, earthy, hands-on, living quality in working with ripened, ripped pieces that are incorporated into carefully considered drawings and paintings. Finding the exactly serendipitous piece of paper feels like finding a treasure —the one particular color or texture that will work in some way within a piece in a still unfinished puzzle. This process of inviting unforeseen happenings and finding the unexpected helps me avoid reliance on preconceived ideas. The treatment of the paper lends to it an inherent living quality. Depending on the passing of time and light, it takes on various characteristics and a quality of accelerated impermanence as the paper ages and becomes fragile, not unlike those things we search for and cherish in an attic or basement, or even at an archeological site, or when retrieving a lost memory. An otherwise ordinary, insignificant quality becomes special. A fingerprint, wrinkle, rip, drip, or tear becomes texture and language. These abstract contemplative works were developed with the view that art has the capacity to infuse our experience with awareness of our inherent nature, and, along with their carefully chosen titles, invite viewers to move beyond the boundaries of the image into a more contemplative consideration of mind in relationship to the phenomena of what we consider objective reality.