Maya Hayuk makes use of an unbounded and unpredictable matrix of sources, mediums, and styles. Her relationship to the images she invents is an intricate and complex free association and a perspicacious act of unfailingly putting all the parts together to make the whole. She employs intense yet pertinent colors, complex geometries, and fine lines in order to collect the constituents that make up her present and visceral world. Her obsession with symmetry and her collection of images of mandalas, playing cards, hexes, totem poles, Ukrainian Easter eggs, quilts and bandanas play out in works that espouse the traditional as well as the innovative. There is something very classic rock punk folk rainbow peace freak out about Maya Hayuk that is very hard to put a finger on, but really it's all about love. As if kindled by her distinguishing heart-shaped insignia signature, Hayuk's disposition and practice eschew unpleasantries and welcome the irony and satire of real life.

Maya Hayuk, a classic-rock-punk-folk-rainbow-peace-freak-out artist
www.mayahayuk.com