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Dissolution / Resolution
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AP SPACE is proud to present a solo exhibition of works by Murray Hochman, featuring Large Polychrome paintings on canvas, a series on paper called Inner Spaces, and the debut of his Camo Tower sculpture.
Curated by AP SPACE and Alan Goolman, the show highlights Hochman’s mature practice—where the dissolution of luminescent lacquers by solvents creates spaces in which time seems to disappear.
Born in 1934 on NYC’s Lower East Side, Hochman has spent over 60 years quietly pushing the boundaries of contemporary painting. Recognized by prominent curators and collectors in the vibrant 1960s arts scene, Hochman has spent the last two decades in the Berkshires, evolving his signature aerosol technique. His work—influenced by minimalist legends and graffiti culture—transforms industrial materials into high-art meditations.
Artist
Murray Hochman was born in 1934 and raised on NYC’s Lower East Side. He has a BA in art history from New York University and an MFA from Alfred University in ceramic arts, although he quickly turned to
painting.
His first works were bought by Frederic Mueller of the Pace Gallery and other prominent curators and collectors, including Henry Geldzahler (then curator of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum), Sam Hunter, Robert Scull and Allan Stone. During the 1960s, he was included in group shows at the Pace and Tibor de Nagy galleries along with the Whitney Art Resources Center and the Lobo Gallery in Montreal.
Throughout the following decades, Hochman has painted and exhibited consistently, but largely under the radar of the mainstream art establishment. In 2000, he bought a farm in the Berkshires, where he has been working in relative isolation for the last 25 years.
It stimulated a period of intense creativity and new directions, including collage, paintings on scrap metal, and wall reliefs and sculpture made out of discarded plastic, his first foray into the third dimension since his graduate work in ceramics.
www.murrayhochman.com
