Maya Hayuk
Artworks
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Frat party USA
graphite, gouache, ink, watercolor on paper
11.25" x 10" - framed
2006
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Katherine Harris Juggles Hairy Bush Balls
graphite, gouache, ink, watercolor on paper
10" x 13" - framed
2006
Artist Interview
- Where are you from?
Grew up in baltimore, studied in richmond, toronto, boston and odessa ukraine. moved to SF in 1991 and NY in 2002
- Where do you live, how long?In williamsburg, brooklyn since 2002
- How did you start making art?As a kid it was more fun than socializing, i guess.
- School or self taught?Both.
- Processes, ideas, or things that make you creative?Listening to music and going to shows, riding my bike around, reading the news, meditating to a certain degree, getting stuck on random references and researching them usually on the google, watching films. i love the movies.
- Who are your favorite artists?Thomas campbell, rita ackerman, kyle ranson, sara thustra, alicia mccarthy (this is the way short list)
- Favorite food?I'm really into cooking white bean-ham hock soup with corn bread
- Music you can't live without?AM radio soft rock hits, animal collective, jose gonzales, sufjan stevens
- Any hobbies?Making holiday tribute videos with andrew deutsch under the moniker "open arms". we write and record music together (i'm learning guitar) and then make videos to go with the given theme & sentiment of the holiday.
- Shoe Size?8
- Tight pants or baggy pants?No choice to have tight pants right now since i quit smoking and started eating more.
Biography
United States
Maya Hayuk’s paintings, murals, prints, drawings and photographs can range from tender mockeries of idealized social rituals such as hot tubbing or undressing, to transcendent portrayals of geometries giving way to nature.
Growing up in the Wonderbread suburb of Baltimore the daughter of Ukrainian immigrant parents, she converted to punk rock early on. Studying in Boston, Toronto and Odessa, Ukraine, she earned her BFA in Conceptual Art, sInterrelated Media and Philosophy. These and other sojourns to Europe, the U.S.S.R. and Northern Africa gave Hayuk exposure to a panoply of rich cultures. She landed in San Francisco, and later helped to found and creatively direct withitgirl, a skate-surf-snowboarding-punk-art website and magazine with the aim of mentoring young women and nurturing their individual artistic expression.
In 2005 she built and painted a massive skate track in Pittsburgh, PA and painted a hotel room at the Hotel Des Arts in SF alongside numerous other large scale painting projects. The cornucopia of Hayuk’s worldly experiences is ever-present in her curvilinear, psychedelic, organic-cum- geometric and palpably patterned handiwork and she continues to show nationally and abroad.
Hayuk has also had a hand in the music world, making videos with Andrew Deutsch under the moniker “Open Arms,” and lending her artwork to album covers, tour posters and publicity for numerous artists, from Prefuse 73 to Devendra Banhart.
