{"id":19335,"date":"2026-09-03T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/?p=19335"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:18:28","slug":"artists-in-morris-kyle-hackett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/2026\/09\/03\/artists-in-morris-kyle-hackett\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists in Morris: Kyle Hackett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by the concept of a reading room,\u00a0Intervals of Study: Space & Interior Relations<\/em>\u00a0brings together finished paintings and drawings with the studies, references, and material experiments that inform them. For Kyle Hackett, these works offer a way to consider the language of painting and drawing as something continually shaped through looking, questioning, and making. By presenting the process alongside the finished work, the exhibition creates space to consider an artistic practice not as a fixed destination, but as an ongoing process of figuring things out over time.<\/p>\n

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Exploring relationships between architecture, memory, material, and personal history, the exhibition unfolds through distinct groupings and spatial interventions. Works such as\u00a0Forward Restraint<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0After Arrival<\/em>\u00a0demonstrate Hackett\u2019s interest in material recirculation, transforming remnants of earlier work into new inquiries. The\u00a0After Builder Series #1\u20134<\/em>\u00a0draws on discarded portrait references and vanitas traditions, physically twisting, binding, tearing, and doubling images to explore tension, constraint, and release. Elsewhere,\u00a0After Taylor Hall Study<\/em>\u00a0considers institutional memory through Hackett\u2019s return to the University of Delaware, while\u00a0For A.G. Gaston (Birmingham)<\/em>\u00a0brings familial photographs into conversation with the history of Birmingham\u2019s A.G. Gaston Motel.<\/p>\n

Together, these works explore the spaces between image and object, memory and history, and study and resolution.\u00a0Intervals of Study<\/em>\u00a0invites viewers to linger within these intervals\u2014to consider how meaning develops through the act of making, revisiting, and looking again.<\/div>\n

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About the Artist:<\/strong>
\nUD Alumnus Kyle Hackett, AS11, is an acclaimed painter whose work explores race, class and social standing through self-representation and constructed imagery. His paintings have been widely exhibited and featured in publications including The Washington Post and New American Paintings. Click here for more on Hackett and his artwork.<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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