updates from Rachel Hayes : 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Eric Sall AB FAB @ ADA Gallery

Eric has a few awesome paintings in Richmond, VA

AB FAB @ ADA Gallery
Richmond, VA
September-October 2012

On the Arts of Invading Spaces

Curated by Karin Bravin

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Eric Sall interview with Gorky's Granddaughter

Gorky's Granddaughter visited the studio

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Space Invaders

I am showing two installations in this group exhibition curated by Karin Bravin



		Space Invaders, organized by guest curator Karin Bravin, features the work of eighteen artists who make use of the unique spaces at Lehman College - both inside the galleries and outside the building. Using the walls, the ceiling, the floor, or the balcony above the atrium, works appear to grow out of the structure, hang down, wrap around, or peer out from under. Working with a specific location in mind, the space becomes the artist's canvas. The outcome can be organic and free flowing, expressive and thought provoking. These site-specific installations will include floor-bound works arranged in sprawling configurations that appear to be organically inspired. Some of the artists use large sculptures that skillfully appropriate both indoor and outdoor spaces. Others use bits of material that might have once intersected with someone's life creating an expanding cultural collage, and some create installations that cascade from a ceiling or stretch from inside to outside. Each artist will inhabit the space differently, taking cues from the distinctive architecture - Lehman College Art Gallery is located in a building designed by Marcel Breuer in 1960. Upon approaching the gallery from the center of the campus, the viewer will encounterRachel Hayes' boldly colored fabric installation. Light and wind affect the piece as it is viewed from both indoors and outdoors. On the Goulden Avenue side of the campus viewers will find Dahila Elsayed's series of text-based flags. These festive, poetic, and suggestive visual markers metaphorically call to attention aspects of the campus with which one might not be familiar. DeWitt Godfrey's monumental steel tubes sit under an overpass, nestled between concrete walls. Kim Beck's work will lead us from the outside to inside with vinyl decals of commonly overlooked weeds that grow out of cracks and up walls. Inside, in the gallery lobby, Sheila Pepe will dress the atrium with a degree of craft and decoration that likely was never intended for Marcel Breuer's cast concrete; Rita MacDonald's large-scale wall drawing plays up the roundness of the foyer's walls with an image of a pattern caught in a spinning motion. Carol Salmanson's Hercules Lite, made of transparent green plexiglass, will mimic the shape of the building's massive support columns, emphasizing contrasting feelings of weightlessness and ephemerality. In the galleries, Diana Cooper will combine fragmented photographs with three-dimensional elements, abstracted, but projecting an inherent sense of oppressive systems, networks, circuitry and surveillance. Heeseop Yoon's installation of black masking tape on Mylar will play with positive and negative space, void and solid, transforming the space into a busy network of lines that not only slows down the process of seeing and drawing but also suspends the viewer's gaze. Franklin Evans'work will explode the boundaries of painting with such disparate elements as books, sound recordings, sculpture, painting, artist's materials, digital images, drawing, and process residue. Abigail DeVille will transform the small video room using found and inherited domestic objects that make a connection to her personal universe and the one at large. Cordy Ryman's Rafter Web Scrapwall will be a sprawling 30 foot wall installation of recycled remains from a previous installation of painted wood pieces;Mariah Robertson will create a cascading floor to ceiling installation of unique photographs that are the result of darkroom experimentation. Lisa Kellner uses the language of diseased cellular activity to make large-scale installations. She hand forms, paints and sews together thousands of organic, bulbous shapes out of silk organza.Nicola Lopez will create an installation using woodblock printed Mylar that will transform a portion of the space's sloping ceiling. Robert Melee's marbleized imitation wood and drop ceiling panels will cover a space that channels and explores the distinct, yet inter-related psychologies of the suburban home. His installation will include the paintings of fellow artist Erik Hanson. Gandalf Gavan's neon and mirrored wall installation will alter the viewer's perception of the exhibition space, and Halley Zienwill make use of a hidden gallery kitchen that will be invaded by hundreds of her collaged and psychologically expressive characters.

		Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm For more Information about Lehman College Art Gallery visit: www.lehman.edu/gallery

Burlap Falls, 2012 Rachel Hayes

Making Modern, 2012 Rachel Hayes

My work 'Making Modern' withstood 90 mile per hour winds during hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Surprisingly there was hardly any damage!

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Dumbo Freestyle Canopy

September 28, 29, 30 2012
Directions
commissioned by:
DUMBO Art Festival

Rachel Hayes @ Headlands Center for the Arts

Unyielding Faith
Headlands Center for the Arts 30th Birthday Party
September 15th, 2012
San Francisco, CA

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Rachel Hayes - Break/Step @ Radiator Arts

FREE ENERGY
fabric, vinyl, welded steel

http://www.radiatorarts.com/Gallery.html

Break/Step

10-61 Jackson Ave
Long Island City, New York 11106

Esther Choi, Rachel Hayes, Todd Knopke, Rena Leinberger, Stephanie Loveless, Al Lupiani, Angel Otero, Ian Pedigo, Armita Raafat, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Peter Soriano, Miryana Todorova and Sebastian Vallejo

Curated by Eileen Jeng

June 8 - July 8, 2012
Hours: Saturday and Sunday 3-6 pm Opening reception: June 8, 6-9 pm

Radiator Gallery presents Break/Step, a group exhibition featuring artists, currently based in the New York metropolitan area, whose works embody deconstruction in creation and vary in techniques. The imagery, act, and aestheticization of deconstruction play an important part in contemporary art, especially in process-oriented works that focus on materiality. The title refers to the movement when soldiers are instructed to “break step” when crossing structures, such as bridges, sensitive to resonance. The unified rhythm is intentionally broken to create a new sound and image.

In the matrix that composes our urban environments, buildings, land, and materials are constantly being developed or constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed. Materials are recycled and reused, sometimes in creative ways. Land erodes, only to be built upon or preserved again. On a practical level, the infrastructure of cities, like New York, is constantly being reconstituted and the act of deconstruction occurs everyday -- which begs the question: what is the nature of creation when construction and deconstruction are integral parts of the process?

Over the past four decades, contemporary artists have continuously challenged the medium utilized and process involved in works of art; narratives are broken, reinterpreted, and recreated. The artists in Break / Step use various traditional and innovative media, such as oil paint, fabric, plastic bags, glass, and industrial tubing. Surfaces are highly mediated. Images are re-construed, deconstituted, and altered. Sounds are fragmented. And public and private spaces are transformed. Chance, risk, and failure are evident and inevitable.

Abstracted in composition, these paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, performances, films, and videos gain transformative dimensions. Out of disclarity and fragmentation, clarity and fresh perspectives re-form and develop. Some works produce a confounding affect, evoking a sense of tension. The artists examine aesthetic and formal qualities in their work, and some confront personal memories and histories as well as address cultural, social, and identity issues. Many dichotomies are suggested, such as permanence and impermanence, stability and instability, utopia and dystopia, reality and illusion.

Eileen Jeng is an independent writer and curator and the archivist at Sperone Westwater in New York. Her latest project includes Facture at AIRPLANE in Brooklyn among others. She was a research assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, and she was involved in various exhibitions, including FLOAT at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City in 2007. She earned an MA in arts administration and policy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in art history and advertising from Syracuse University.
A catalogue will be published in conjunction with Break/Step. Please also find related events and documentation at www.radiatorarts.com. For more information and images, email info@radiatorarts.com or call 1 347 677 3418.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Eric Sall @ Regina Rex - Four Paintings

Four Paintings at Regina Rex

Eric Sall

Eastern Northeastern
2012
Oil on canvas
78 x 96 in

Britta Deardorff
Jackie Gendel
Juan Gomez
Eric Sall

Opening Reception: Friday, April 20th, 7-10pm

Regina Rex is pleased to present an exhibition of four paintings - one each from artists Britta Deardorff, Jackie Gendel, Juan Gomez and Eric Sall. The four paintings were selected to individually hold a large wall while collectively contributing to a boisterous conversation in a large white room. These paintings are not cool or restrained ï¿½they are exuberant both in scale and visual vocabulary. They employ lush palates, body-scale gesture, and elements of the figurative in an unapologetic and visceral appeal to the viewer.

Britta Deardorff was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1983 and currently lives in New York City. She received a BFA in painting from Ohio University in 2005 and an MFA from Hunter College in 2011 where she also was the recipient of the Tony Smith Award.

Jackie Gendel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo shows include Fables in Slang at Bryan Miller Gallery in Houston, and Rose Madder and the Ultramarines, at Jeff Bailey, in NY. Gendel has participated in numerous residencies including the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program.

Juan Gomez was born in 1970 in Bogota, Colombia. Gomez received a BFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has exhibited his work at CUE Art Foundation, Feature, Inc., Massimo Audiello, Art in General, Lombard-Freid Projects, Momenta Art and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

Eric Sall was born in Sioux Falls, SD. Recent exhibitions include Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea; Nerman Museum of Fine Arts, Overland Park, KS; and Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE. He received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Eric lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday, May 12th

Regina Rex will host an event at the gallery in conjunction with Actually, Itï¿½s Ridgewood; a multiple site art event, organized by the Queens Museum of Art as a part of their Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangleexhibition. More info coming soon.

Press:

Four Paintings in a White Box
Painters’ Table: Hurst, HowardFOUR PAINTINGS AT REGINA REX
New American Paintings: Kimball, Whitney

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Eric Sall in Wavers

http://www.waversshow.blogspot.com

Friday, March 2, 2012

Wheelhouse Review - Rachel Hayes & Eric Sall

Studio Visit with Wheelhouse Review

Please click the link above to see more pictures from our studio in Kansas City. Wheelhouse Review visited the week we packed up to move back to Brooklyn.