Hayley Barker

Hayley Barker (born 1973) is an American painter. She makes figurative paintings and drawings that represent psychological spaces.[1]

Biography

Hayley Barker was born in Oregon in 1973. She received her BA from the University of Oregon, and her MA & MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa. She has recently had her 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 & works in Los Angeles, California.

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

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.[2]

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. Taylor writes:

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]

References
  1. "Biography". Archived from the original on January 30, 2018. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  2. Taylor, Sue. "Hayley Barker". Art in America. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  3. Taylor, Sue. "Hayley Barker". Art in America. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
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