Maya Hayuk (born 1969 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an internationally exhibited American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for the bold geometric patterns she employs in large-scale murals.
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 Artist Maya Hayuk at Black Lunch Table x Skowhegan Block Party 2021. | |
| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | University of Odesa, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts College of Art and Design |
| Known for | Geometric, patterned murals |
Biography
editHayuk received a BFA in 1991 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, she has also studied at the University of Odesa, in Odesa, Ukraine and at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[1]
She gathers her inspiration from pysanka, mandalas, chandeliers, views from the Hubble Telescope, holograms, Rorschach tests, and the surrounding environment.[2]
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and commissions at venues including UCLA's Hammer Museum, LA (2013), The Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2013), Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2012) and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York (2011).[citation needed]
In 2005, she curated and produced This Wall Could Be Your Life on the exterior walls of Monster Island, which is now demolished. It was a self-funded 7-year project. On September 11, 2011, she arranged the Paint Pour Off, an event in which paint was poured from the rooftop and down the walls of the building to mark the finality of this project and Monster Island.[3]
From August 17, 2013 until January 6, 2014, her work was the subject of a museum exhibition at UCLA's Hammer Museum called “Hammer Projects: Maya Hayuk”.[4] She painted large-scale murals in the lobby of the Hammer Museum, in which the project was opened with an August 16, 2014, event with artists Chris Johanson and Gary Panter and music from the band No Age.[4]
During the winter of 2014, she created a new work for the Bowery Mural, an ever-changing series of installed murals on a wall project established by the late real estate developer and art impresario Tony Goldman. She is only the third woman to paint this wall.[5][6]
Hayuk has curated numerous exhibitions, such as Apocabliss at ALICE Gallery (2008).[7][better source needed] She is a member of the Barnstormers collective, the Cinders Art Collective and has frequently collaborated with other artists and musicians.[citation needed]
She has created album covers, videos, stage sets, photographs and posters for Rye Rye/M.I.A, Akron/Family, TV on the Radio, The Flaming Lips, Devendra Banhart, Seun Kuti, Prefuse 73, Awesome Color, Oakley Hall, Home, Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, Bonnie Prince Billy and the Beastie Boys, among others.[citation needed]
Legal issues
editHayuk's work has been the center of disputes over appropriation. In 2015, Hayuk sued Starbucks, claiming that the company used her designs after she had declined the company's offer to partner with them.[8][9] The lawsuit was thrown out, but in 2016, Hayuk asked the judge on the case to reconsider the decision. The works in question are copyrighted, but the court decided that shapes, lines and colors were not exclusive to Hayuk and withstood copyright infringement's substantial similarities.[10]
Hayuk has also sued singer Sara Bareilles and Coach for featuring her New York mural Chemical Trails without the artist's permission.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Maya Hayuk". Wall Street International. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- ^ "Hammer Projects, Maya Hayuk". Hammer Museum. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
- ^ "Maya Hayuk". WideWalls. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
- ^ a b Rosemberg, Jasmin (August 26, 2013). "Hammer Projects Presents an Exhibit by Muralist Maya Hayuk". Los Angeles Confidential. Niche Media LLC. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
- ^ "Streets: Maya Hayuk – Bowery & Houston Mural (Part I)". Arrested Motion. February 8, 2014. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
- ^ "Tag Archives: Bowery Houston Mural". Arrested Motion. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
- ^ "Apocabliss". ALICE Gallery. March 20, 2008.
- ^ "Did Starbucks Steal Maya Hayuk's Art—Or Does She Just Sue a Lot?". New York Observer. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
- ^ "Maya Hayuk Sues Starbucks for Stealing Her Art-artnet News". artnet News. 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
- ^ Streetartandlaw (2016-07-18). "Maya Hayuk – Starbucks and the substantial similarity test. Idea vs. expression". Street Art & Law. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
- ^ "Maya Hayuk Sues Starbucks for Stealing Her Art-artnet News". artnet News. 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2017-04-20.