Frederick Hayes

Fredrick Hayes is a multi media artist working in drawing, painting, and sculpture. His work is concerned with investigating the notion of the identity and self within contemporary urban culture through portraiture and other works. He uses the found image and material with sculpture, the imagined and the real to re-construct a fictional countenance that invokes the viewer to action.  This action is a result of ocular responses through color as well as the physical application of the materials.  With these elements he looks to dispel any preconceive notions surrounding race, class and type to a level of unique difference that addresses humanity each time. 

He has exhibited work at Triple Candie, the Studio Museum, Hallwalls Contemporary, New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, DeSaisset Museum, Boston University, Number 35, and the Luggage Store and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, CA.  Hayes has held residencies at MacDowell, VCCA, LMCC and The Headlands Center for the Art. 

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