john hyatt: my brush with angels

John Hyatt:My Brush with Angels

Cultural Arts Commission

Lynn Frangos, ChairAnil Muhammed, Vice-ChairLynda BuntingEd CandiotyDale A. KormanGerry RischeGreg Taylor

Cultural Services Division

Eve Rappoport, ManagerCarl Kaemerle, Senior SupervisorDebbie Collins, Secretary

Torrance Art Museum

Max Presneill, Museum Director/CuratorLisa Desmidt, Assistant Curator/Event CoordinatorChris Reynolds, Assistant CuratorNatasia Gascon, Volunteer Coordinator

Torrance City Council

Mayor Patrick J. FureyHeidi Ann AshcraftGene BarnettTim GoodrichGeoff RizzoKurt Weideman

Rebecca Poirier, City ClerkDana Cortez, City Treasurer

LeRoy J. Jackson, City ManagerMary Giordano, Assistant City ManagerJohn R. Jones, Community Services Director

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The Torrance Art Museum is the premiere visual art space to view contemporary art in the South Bay. It is a program of the City of Torrance Cultural Services Division of the Community Services Department. The Cultural Services Division is responsible for city sponsored arts and culture initiatives held at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center and throughout the City. All events are FREE to the public.

It has been a heck of a year. Fighting throat cancer should have been a miserable struggle but instead I just kept painting and these works are documents from that adventure. The journey has been rich in experience. It took me to dark places where your light can either shine or expunge itself. I have fought dragons wearing lightweight armour made of mirrors. I have drunk from the chalice of eternal life in lands where marvelous and strange creatures rule. I have followed mesmeric melodies across the valley where clouds hang in the tails of wild blue horses. I have seen colours that I did not know existed and been rewarded with a new voice that speaks only Truth. I reached the silent place where creation roars. Here, I give you a map of the waterways to the Centre of the Earth and back. Switch off your cell phones because, here, you are beyond time and space. No-one can reach you. No-one is watching you. History will not record your passing. You are present solely to enjoy the rhythms of my brush with Angels.

John Hyatt, January 2015

John Hyatt:My Brush with Angels

march 28th- may 14th, 2015

John HyattThe Music Lesson2014Oils39.4 x 39.4 inchesCourtesy of the Artist

John HyattWoman and a Meteorite

2014Oils

39.4 x 39.4 inchesCourtesy of the Artist

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John HyattThe Sunset (Detail)2014Oils39.4 x 39.4 inchesCourtesy of the Artist

John HyattSilver Birch2014Oils39.4 x 39.4 inchesCourtesy of the Artist

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John HyattStorm Valley (Detail)

2014Oils


John HyattThe Festival2014Oils39.4 x 39.4 inchesCourtesy of the Artist

John HyattEquinox2014Oils39.4 x 39.4 inchesCourtesy of the Artist

John HyattThe Lion Pool

2014Oils


John HyattDotty2014Oils39.4 x 39.4 inchesCourtesy of the Artist

John HyattBowl of Flowers

2014Oils


John HyattBetween the Worlds

2014Oils


John HyattThe Condition (detail)

2014Oils


john hyatt: my brush with angels

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