Maya Hayuk’s vibrant, painterly abstractions variously reference Ukrainian Easter eggs, Mexican woven blankets, mandalas, holograms, and Rorschach blots. The artist has used acrylic, ink, glitter, spray paint, watercolors, tape, and ballpoint pens to shape the kaleidoscopic geometries that fill her public murals, canvases, and works on paper. Hayuk embraces a dense, layered style that’s alternately harmonic and dissonant, referential and experimental. She has exhibited and created site-specific commissions in New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and San Francisco, and her work belongs in the collections of the Ukrainian Museum, the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art, MOCA Jacksonville, and the Dean Collection. Hayuk has produced album covers, videos, stage sets, photographs, and posters for M.I.A., TV on the Radio, the Flaming Lips, Devendra Banhart, and the Beastie Boys, among other musicians.
