Andrew Hayes är uppvuxen i Tucson, Arizona, han är utbildad skulptör och metallarbetare som balancerar mellan konst, konsthantverk och hantverk. Alla hans verk fullkomligt luktar materialitet och kärlek till tingen. Efter ett treårigt Core Fellowship at Penland School of Crafts, där han kom i kontakt med ett flertal nya slöjd och hantverkstekniker, blev boken en stor den av hans undersökande arbete.
Andrews utställning på Steneby konsthall är en del av hans AIR på MetalArt Steneby och region Steneby som på grund av Covid-19 börjar på distans via packlårar, paket och videosamtal. Utställningen visar nya verk från de bok och metallserier han är internationellt erkänd för i samklang med mer undersökande AIR arbeten via Videolänk och fotografier.
Statement Andrew Hayes
The book is a seductive object to hold and smell and run your fingers through. I am drawn to books for many reasons; however, the content of the book does not enter my work. The pages allow me to achieve a form, surface, and texture that are appealing to me. The book as an object is full of fact and story. I take my sensory appreciation for the book as a material and employ the use of metal to create a new form, and hopefully a new story.
The book is a seductive object to hold and smell and run your fingers through. I am drawn to books for many reasons; however, the content of the book does not enter my work. The pages allow me to achieve a form, surface, and texture that are appealing to me. The book as an object is full of fact and story. I take my sensory appreciation for the book as a material and employ the use of metal to create a new form, and hopefully a new story.
Andrew Hayes grew up in Tucson, Arizona and studied sculpture at Northern Arizona University.The desert landscape inspired much of his early sculptural work and allowed him to cultivate his style in fabricated steel.After leaving school,Andrew worked in the industrial welding trade. While living in Portland, Oregon, bouncing between welding jobs and creating his own work he was invited to the EMMA collaboration. This one-week experience was liberating for Andrew and he was encouraged by his fellow collaborators to apply to the Core Fellowship at Penland School of Crafts. During his time as a Core Fellow, Andrew was able to explore a variety of materials and techniques. Surprisingly, the book became a big part of this exploration. In this work he faces the challenge of marrying the rigid qualities of metal with the delicacy of the book page.
His work has been embraced by collectors and he has been included in exhibitions and collections at Yale University, Hartford University, the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey and the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum in Mesa, Arizona to name a few.
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