Gary W. Hinsche, award-winning artist and executive design director of the Ohlmann Group in Dayton, has provided us with this lovely artwork, U, created with epoxy over acrylic on Baltic Birch. This piece is a part of his collection, called AZ, essence of a letterform, a series of large-format acrylic works that represent the culmination of thousands of hours of drawing and four years of work dedicated to expressing the simple essence of a letter, while maintaining the attributes of a fully-developed font: a family of twenty-six letters. And YOU can have the letter U!

To Gary, "...for any work to have value beyond decoration it has to be intellectually or spiritually rooted in an idea that transcends the expected. Art needs to expand the way WE view the world or at least it needs to challenge the obvious and engage the viewer. It's the responsibility of an artist to create a visual bridge between reality and perception. In other words, ART has to change or affect the visual narrative. Challenging realty, interpreting reality and presenting reality differently".

This value is inherently realized in U and you'll be fascinated by the extra dive into Gary's work with the addition of his book, The Essence of a Font" included with the artwork.

Gary has worked with some of the world's most prestigious brands and events, including the 1984 Olympics, the 1994 FIFA Men's World Cup, the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, Teledyne, Vaurnet France, Beckman Coulter, Sutter Health, Vitas, and the National Holocaust Museum. His work has been honored with gold medals from the New York and Los Angeles Art Directors Clubs, AIGA, and the Mead Annual Report Show, and has been featured in Print magazine, Graphis, and (CA) Communications Arts magazine. He has served as the president of the Los Angeles Art Directors Club, sat on the Advisory Board of AIGA/LA and taught for 7 years at the Art Center College of Design.

Gary's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Cincinnati, Columbus and most recently in the Dana L. Wiley Gallery in Dayton.

Size with frame: 10 1/4" wide x 12 1/4" high x 1" deep