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Hayes, Randy
| Last Name: | Hayes |
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| First Name: | Randy |
| Dates: |
*1944 (Date of Birth)
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| Biography/History: | Randy Hayes was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944 and he currently lives in Seattle. He received his B.F.A. from the Memphis Academy of Arts in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. He is represented in museums and public/private collections throughout the nation. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, the 1990 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Award, and the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum. His paintings depict and "unedited realism" which focuses upon the more gritty aspects of human relationship between man and woman. His work is large, boldly painted and ambiguous. Ultimately the viewer "recreates" the various levels of interpretation, reading his/her own symbolic message into the haunting tableaus he presents. He is interested in demonstrating the complex relationship we have with people we do not know. He demonstrates humanity at its most vulnerable, its most mundane. His oil really are blown-up snapshots-- images that would usually have meaning only to those who know the people in them. |Information found in an artist resume and an article from "Vision" magazine called "Painters of Post-Modern Life." It can be found in Accession file # 3651. |
| Related Objects: |
3651.1 (Painting, Water from an Ancient Well, 1991)
3679.1 (Painting, Dancing in the Dark: Beijing, 1992)
4395.24 (Painting, Tapestry Chair, 2005)
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