VISIONS AND HALLUCINATIONS

“The digital work of Herman Mhire, cultivated over three decades, makes a powerful case for the artness of digitally produced imagery – in no small part by engaging in formats, and indeed in an overarching aesthetic, that impact our experience of Mhire’s work in material as well as imagistic realms. Mhire is nothing if not pictorial – he seeks not to fool or entertain the eye, but to challenge and even overwhelm it – but his artwork is nothing if not materially present. In that, I refer to the work’s scale, its engagement of the viewer’s space as well as its own, and the visceral power of its images, even at normative (e.g. “easel”) sizes.” Peter Frank