Oglethorpe University Museum
Atlanta, GA
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Randy Hayes: The World Reveiled
"Randy Hayes: The World Reveiled"
will run from November 7 through December 19, 1999 at Oglethorpe University
Museum.
"Hayes
depicts figures-usually women-who are veiled, turned away, or partially
hidden by what they are wearing. The identity of these figures, some of
whom are brides, is shaped by the fact that they are obscured, hidden,"
said art critic John Yau, who has also authored the book The World Reveiled
published in conjunction with this exhibition. "In these works Hayes
has shifted his interest in gender and identity to something more elusive.
Is the veiled woman a type? an icon? or are we all veiled, no matter who
or what we are?"
Randy Hayes was born in 1944 in Jackson, Miss, In 1968,
Hayes received his B.F.A. from the Memphis Academy of Arts (now Memphis
College of Arts) after attending Rhodes College from 1962-65. Hayes had
his first solo exhibition in 1971 at the Penryn Gallery in Seattle, Wash.
In 1972 his work was featured at the 23rd Annual Mid-South Exhibition at
the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. In 1975 Hayes received a WGBH New Television
Workshop Grant in Boston.
Hayes
has continued to exhibit his work in galleries in Seattle and Memphis, Tenn.
In 1984, Hayes won the Betty Bowen Memorial Award in Seattle, In 1987 he
had an exhibition at the Tacoma (Wash.) Museum. In 1988 he was awarded a
WESTAF/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship. In 1990 he was awarded the Mississippi
Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Award. His work is also part of
the collections of the U.S. Department of State, Microsoft Corporation,
the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum and the Mississippi Museum
of Art.
"Carefully assembling a grid of actual photographs
as the ground on which he paints, Hayes not 
only fuses aspects of photography and painting in
a formally innovative way but also provokes the viewer to reconsider their
relationship to each other, and to time, both as something passing and as
something stopped," said Yau.
Images from top to bottom: Apollo Bunder, Bombay, 1998 oil on
photograph, 20 x 16 inches; The World Reveiled, 1998, oil on photolinen,
48 x 38 inches; Dying Delta Day, oil on photographs, pushpins, 80
x 110 inches.
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"Hayes
depicts figures-usually women-who are veiled, turned away, or partially
hidden by what they are wearing. The identity of these figures, some of
whom are brides, is shaped by the fact that they are obscured, hidden,"
said art critic John Yau, who has also authored the book The World Reveiled
published in conjunction with this exhibition. "In these works Hayes
has shifted his interest in gender and identity to something more elusive.
Is the veiled woman a type? an icon? or are we all veiled, no matter who
or what we are?"
