Jeffry Dean Hinton

I am a painter currently living and working in Chicago, IL. I studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under some of Chicago’s most acclaimed practicing artists, including members of the Imagist- Harry Who movement, as well as leading contemporary figurative and abstract painters.

At SAIC I was exposed to traditional and non-traditional practices and thinking about art and figuration while studying anatomy from living models as well as directly from cadavers at the Northwestern University medical lab.

For someone like myself who loves painting as well as history,it was an unquestionable advantage to be studying in the museum school, having one of the greatest art collections available to the public as well as the historical artifacts that the museum has on display.

Being surrounded by these artworks and artifacts drove home the ideas put forth by Walter Benjamin in his essays about Aura and Authenticity, mainly that an object can be imprinted or saturated with these qualities.

Through the process of working and reworking, my paintings become in some way like a palimpsest with colors and previous attempts showing through newer layers as if it were being created and excavated during the same process.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Shows and
Exhibitions
 
2017
Open Eyes. Open Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
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Seeing Red.  ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2012
  
Drive It Like You Stole It. Maximum Tattoo Gallery, Deerfield, IL
 
She Art Gallery Chicago,IL
 
Chicago Love Show. Temple Symphosium, Chicago, IL
Let's Talk About Love. Kollective Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH
 
Like A Ross. Kollective Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH
 
Turn It Up To 11. Maximum Tattoo, Chicago, IL
 
Merry Krampus. Promenade Gallery, Anaheim, CA
 
2011

Silver Room Ninth Annual Sound System Block Party  “100 Canvases for A Better World” art exhibition Chicago, IL 
 
 House Beautiful Magazine's Pink Walk. Ravenswood, Chicago, IL 
 
2010
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It's Your Funeral. Tattoo Factory, Chicago, IL
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2004
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Eye Lounge, Synesthesia, live collaberative sound and painting  performance with artist Darren Lewis, Phoenix, AZ
 
1998
                         
Art One Gallery Scottsdale, AZ,                           
 
M.A.R.S. Gallery, La Phoeniquera, Phoenix, AZ
 
Shemer Art Center, Art of the Community, Phoenix AZ
 
1997                          
 
M.A.R.S. Gallery, Annual Blue Light, Phoenix AZ
 
 
Published 
Articles        
 
Sixty Inches From Center,...