NEW YORK SERIES (WIP)

The New York Series is Hinton’s first collection of work since relocating to the United States in 2019. 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 anxiety-fueled meditations on the polarities and contradictions of American society. Symbols and organizational structures resembling power and order meld in and out of disorganized forms as the works slide between the realms of representation and abstraction. The impressions and illusions of capitalist culture are explored through a collision of grandeur and grit, where architectural motifs, infrastructure, monuments, cop cars, flags, figures and rats are strewn together amid layers of rapid line work, shapes and color.