NEW YORK SERIES (WIP)

Hinton’s New York Series is his first collection of work since relocating from Australia to the United States. The body of work comprises of dozens of fieldwork sketches, mixed media drawings and large-scale paintings based on New York City’s streets and sidewalks.

The montage-like compositions are restless expressions on the overstimulating and abrasive experience of the American city. Architectural motifs, monuments, barricades, cop cars, flags, figures, trash and rats are strewn together amid layers of rapid line work. Elements of the city brush up against and overlap one another, interrupting attempts to navigate through the objects, symbols and shapes. These recurring features have been carved out by blankets of color that create looming structures in space, affording tension between respite and noise.