Jefferson Hayman
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Artist Statement
Speaking in Languages Lost
The Photographs of Jefferson Hayman
Whether it is through their boundless depth of tone and shadow, the personalities of their distinctive frames, or their employ of archaic languages- both visual and verbal- the images of Jefferson Hayman seem imported to us from another age.
Hayman likens his work to a time capsule, or short story. Drawing upon indicators and associations from a variety of histories— of art, of photography, of New York City— he plays upon our preconceptions and quietly introduces his own techniques and symbols to the lexicon.
Titles such as New Amsterdam and The New Pyramids point to a fully developed, almost European sense of the expanse of history. In a city, country, and culture which can seem ever preoccupied with the new, the modern, and the reinvention of itself- Hayman manages to surprise us with simple details and omissions: an intruding modern billboard, a missing Chrysler pinnacle. Others, such as Avenue speak to his transforming and poetic sensibility.
Eve Schaub, 2008
Artist Bio
Born: Wilmington, Delaware; 1969
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts (concentration in drawing with a minor in Art History); Kutztown University, Pennsylvania; graduated 1993
Exhibitions:
2008
Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson NY
AIPAD – Michael Shapiro Gallery
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City
New Amsterdam – John Cleary Gallery, Houston TX
Photo LA – Modernbook Gallery
2007
AIPAD Miami – Michael Shapiro Gallery
AIPAD - Michael Shapiro Gallery; New York City
New Photography -Carrie Haddad Gallery; Hudson, NY
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City
Classic Beauty, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York City
2006
AIPAD, NYC - Michael Shapiro Gallery
Works on Paper, Armory NYC - Cooley Gallery
Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ,
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City
ClampArtGallery, New York City
Small Works, NYC - Arcadia Gallery
US Artists Fair, Philadelphia - Arcadia Gallery
2005
AIPAD, NYC - Michael Shapiro Gallery
Packard Reath Gallery, Delaware
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
Jayne Baum Gallery, NYC
Project Room 88, NYC
John Cleary Gallery, Texas
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, NYC
2004
Cooper Classics Gallery , NYC
Karen Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
Thomas Deans & Co., Atlanta
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, NYC
2003
Gallery 270 , NJ
John Street Space, NYC
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, NYC
2002
Gallery of Graphic Arts, NYC
The John Stevenson Gallery, NYC
Michael Ingbar Gallery, NYC
Borem Studios, NYC
2001
Gallery of Graphic Arts, NYC
EGP Collection, WatermillNY
An American Space Gallery , NYC
Stephen Score Gallery, Boston
Chris Rucker Space , NYC
Gallery of Graphic Arts , NYC
Avery on BondGallery, NYC
Collections:
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
President William Jefferson Clinton, NY
Robert DeNiro, NY
William Randolph Hearst III
Anne Wilkes Tucker, Houston
Ethan Hawke collection
Whoopi Goldberg, NY
Banana Republic, San Francisco, CA
John Bennette, NY
Michael Clinton, NY
Rudolph Kicken, Germany
Alejandro Caruso
Steven Diamant, NY
Richard Milazzo, NY
Kutztown University Permanent Collection, Kutztown, PA
Eli Wilner, NY
Nautica, NY
Crown Equipment Corporation – New Bremen, Ohio
Simon Parkes, NY
Sir Kenneth Thomson, Toronto
Stephen Score, Boston
Peter & Paula Lunder, Dexter, ME
Leon Constantine, NY
John and Pascal Mangiardi, NY
Regis Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
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