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American painter

Hayley Barker is an American painter.

Biography

Hayley Barker was born in Oregon. She received her BA from the University of Oregon, and her MA & MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa. She has solo exhibitions with Shrine NYC, including a solo booth at the Armory Art Fair. She has had work featured at La Loma Projects (LA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago), Big Pictures LA, GAS (LA), " The Glendale Biennial" curated by the Pit at the Brand Library & "The Divine Joke", curated by Barry Schwabsky at Anita Rogers Gallery (New York). She has shown with Bozo Mag for the past several years. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Work

In 2011, art critic Sue Taylor reviewed Barker's show "Cathedrals" in "Art in America":

In depictions of sylvan streams and animated skies, Barker conveys a hypersensitive communion with the environment; in the process, she also imparts, with thick impasto and buttery surfaces, an ecstatic sense of the sumptuous materiality of oil paint.

Taylor compared Barker's paintings to the work of Georgia O'Keeffe and Vincent van Gogh. Barker's "Cathedrals" is inspired by the childhood diary of Opal Whiteley, who had visionary, spiritual experiences but was later diagnosed as schizophrenic:

In art, as in religion and madness, consciousness can be other than ordinary. Barker strives to imagine and approximate this deranged susceptibility, listening attentively for voices in the wind.

Of Barker's first solo exhibition in New York with Shrine in 2020 Barry Schwabsky, art critic and historian, wrote:

Barker's paintings elaborate spaces that can't be nailed down and identified. She calls them "spaces of passage," of transition—across the immeasurable distance from life to death, perhaps, but also within life, from one physical or spiritual state to another. Her works speak of mystery, loss: intimations of what lies beyond the boundaries of the self."

Her 2024 solo exhibition "The Ringing Stone" in Edinburgh, Scotland was deemed "One of the most beautiful shows" in the Edinburgh Art Festival by Wallpaper* reviewer Hugo Macdonald. The exhibition's titular painting depicts a prehistoric carved stone on the island of Tiree.

Solo exhibitions

Source:

2017 "New Paintings" Bozo Mag/Abode, LA
2018 "AMPM," Holding Contemporary/Williamson Knight, Portland, OR
2018 "Hayley Barker: Open Studio," Bozo Mag, LA
2019 "LATE BLOOMER," Bozo Mag, LA
2020 ALAC, Bozo Mag, LA
2020 "The Grass is Blue", SHRINE, NYC
2021 "Incense", The Armory Art Fair with Shrine, NYC
2022 "The Spider," SHRINE, NYC
2022 "Bozo House," BozoMag, Los Angeles
2023 "Laguna Castle," Night Gallery, Los Angeles

Group exhibitions

Source:

2018 "The Divine Joke," Anita Rogers Gallery, NY
2018 "Take Care," GAS, LA
2019 "Summer Formal," La Loma Projects, LA
2020 "Conscious Collaboration with Spirit," SOIL Gallery, Seattle
2020 Connections: Shrine, NYC
2020 "New Beginnings..." Nicodim, LA
2020 NADA: This is fair
2020 "Untitled, (But Loved)" Bosse & Baum, London
2020 "Eartha" Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2021 "The Language of Flowers," Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI
2021 "36 Paintings," Harper's East Hampton
2021: "The Rock," BozoMag in collaboration with Pocket Studio, Los Angeles
2022: "Shrubs," Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2022: "Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes," Acquavella Gallery, NYC
2023 "Death of an Outsider," SHRINE, Los Angeles

References

^ Taylor, Sue (9 October 2011). "Hayley Barker". Art in America. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
Schwabsky, Barry. "Openings: Hayley Barker". Art Forum. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
Macdonald, Hugo (18 August 2024). "Our highlights from the Edinburgh Art Festival as it celebrates its 20th anniversary". wallpaper.com. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
"HAYLEY BARKER". HAYLEY BARKER. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
"HAYLEY BARKER". HAYLEY BARKER. Retrieved 2020-10-15.

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