James Hyde & Bailey Santaguida:
A Two-Person Exhibition
Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a two-person exhibition featuring works by James Hyde and Bailey Santaguida. The exhibition opens on Friday, February 13 at our Libbie location and runs through April 17.
Hyde presents five paintings composed of acrylic over inkjet prints, in which vivid geometric forms are layered onto photographic images of florals in nature. These shapes disrupt the normal viewing process, reconsidering the relationships between foreground and background, and abstraction and representation. Santaguida exhibits her signature oil paintings, which function as visual journals. Translating personal reflections and written thoughts into richly colored compositions, her work offers vibrant interpretations of the places she loves the most.
Statements from the Artists
“Flowers and painting share geometry and color as a powerful attraction. I like to think this opticality is something of a home for painting that predates humans by millions of years.
-James Hyde, 2026
“As a young adult, I am constantly at a crossroads. I long to move back home to Pennsylvania, where fields are idyllic and forever, but I also want to stay in the city, where friends are close and dreams are warm. I want to savor the period of life that I am in, but I also crave radical change.
While this ambiguity begs to be resolved, it also feels ethereal and precious. These paintings carry the magic of my childhood and the fairytale of a next chapter; they carry wonderful experiences from my past and the excitement I hold towards my future. In these paintings I don’t have to choose a path; instead, I can have it all. There is magic in the liminal.”
– Bailey Santaguida, 2026
About the Artists
James Hyde
James Hyde (b. 1958) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work ranges from paintings on photographic prints to large-scale installations, photography, and abstract furniture design. Hyde has lectured as a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Yale University, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bard College, and Cooper Union. He is represented by galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Copenhagen.
Recent solo exhibitions include Pyramid Lake, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, US (2016); Observatory and other recent painting, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK (2015); Landscape, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA, US (2015); Varieties of Useful Experience, Volume Gallery, Chicago, IL, US (2015); 20 Year Survey of James Hyde’s Paintings, C.Ar.D., Magazzini, Pianello Val Tidone, IT (2014); Reservoir, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, US (2013);
James Hyde’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, among others. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2000 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. Hyde is presently Faculty Critic at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and at The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art.
Bailey Santaguida
Bailey Santaguida (b.2000) graduated with a B.A. in Visual Art and Media Practices and Psychology from the University of Richmond. In May of 2023 and participated in the Reynolds Gallery 2023 group exhibition “Boundless” and the 2024 exhibition “Making Waves.” She was an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center in August 2023. She currently lives in NYC working as a CGI artist and animator.