Hayley Barker

Hayley Barker is an American painter.

Biography

Hayley Barker was born in Oregon in 1973.^[1]^[2] She received her BA from the University of Oregon, and her MA & MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1]

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.^[3]

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.^[3]

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."^[4]

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.^[5]

Solo exhibitions

Source:^[6]

2024 "The Ringing Stone," Ingleby Gallery
2023 "Last Morning at El Centro," CVG Foundation, Beijing
2023 "Laguna Castle," Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 "Bozo House," BozoMag, Los Angeles
2022 "The Spider," SHRINE, NYC
2021 "Incense", The Armory Art Fair with Shrine, NYC
2020 "The Grass is Blue", SHRINE, NYC
2020 ALAC, Bozo Mag, LA
2019 "LATE BLOOMER," Bozo Mag, LA
2018 "Hayley Barker: Open Studio," Bozo Mag, LA
2018 "AMPM," Holding Contemporary/Williamson Knight, Portland, OR
2017 "New Paintings" Bozo Mag/Abode, LA

Group exhibitions

Source:^[7]

2024 "Afterglow: A Collaboration with Night Gallery," Acquavella Gallery, Palm Beach
2024 "Connections: Wingate Studio at David Krut Projects"
2024 "Arcadia and Elsewhere," James Cohan
2023 "Clairvoyance," SHRINE NYC
2023 "PUBLIC PRIVATE," Pond Society, Shanghai
2023 "Death of an Outsider," SHRINE, Los Angeles
2022: "Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes," Acquavella Gallery, NYC
2022: "Shrubs," Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2021: "The Rock," BozoMag in collaboration with Pocket Studio, Los Angeles
2021 "36 Paintings," Harper's East Hampton
2021 "The Language of Flowers," Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI
2020 "Eartha" Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2020 "Untitled, (But Loved)" Bosse & Baum, London
2020 NADA: This is fair
2020 "New Beginnings..." Nicodim, LA
2020 Connections: Shrine, NYC
2020 "Conscious Collaboration with Spirit," SOIL Gallery, Seattle
2019 "Summer Formal," La Loma Projects, LA
2018 "Take Care," GAS, LA
2018 "The Divine Joke," Anita Rogers Gallery, NY

References

^ ^a ^b "Hayley Barker - Artists - Night Gallery". www.nightgallery.ca. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
^ Lawson-Tancred, Jo (27 September 2023). "Los Angeles Artist Hayley Barker's Lush, Transfixing Landscapes Are Autobiographical Tributes to Nature". Artnet News. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ {https://hayleybarker.com/shows}
^ "HAYLEY BARKER". HAYLEY BARKER. Retrieved 2020-10-15.

External links

[nightgallery-1] "Hayley Barker - Artists - Night Gallery". www.nightgallery.ca. Retrieved 13 February 2025.

[2] Lawson-Tancred, Jo (27 September 2023). "Los Angeles Artist Hayley Barker's Lush, Transfixing Landscapes Are Autobiographical Tributes to Nature". Artnet News. Retrieved 9 February 2025.

[Taylor-3] Taylor, Sue (9 October 2011). "Hayley Barker". Art in America. Retrieved April 19, 2014.

[4] Schwabsky, Barry. "Openings: Hayley Barker". Art Forum. Retrieved 27 October 2021.

[5] Macdonald, Hugo (18 August 2024). "Our highlights from the Edinburgh Art Festival as it celebrates its 20th anniversary". wallpaper.com. Retrieved 14 November 2024.

[6] {https://hayleybarker.com/shows}

[7] "HAYLEY BARKER". HAYLEY BARKER. Retrieved 2020-10-15.

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