For his current exhibition Ric Haynes has returned to his roots and basic instincts as an artist. We have been discussing the evolution of his work for a number of years. The structure of these dialogues is built upon his roots, experiences, and professional studies of philosophy, psychology and deep penetration into mythology, narrative and the semiotics of visual representation.
Counter to the mainstream of the art world the work of Haynes is always compelling. The imagery is volcanic ...
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For his current exhibition Ric Haynes has returned to his roots and basic instincts as an artist. We have been discussing the evolution of his work for a number of years. The structure of these dialogues is built upon his roots, experiences, and professional studies of philosophy, psychology and deep penetration into mythology, narrative and the semiotics of visual representation.
Counter to the mainstream of the art world the work of Haynes is always compelling. The imagery is volcanic erupting a white heat flowing onto the support from the depth of a molten inner earth of self. There is the inherent risk taking that his personalized lava can be corrosive and even destructive.
In the cool world of art speak criticism it is not enticing or chic to peer into the heart of darkness. To join Haynes often means going up the river to destroy the maverick renegade of unleashed self.
excerpt from "Where am I?" exhibition brochure
by Charles Giuliano, Publisher + Editor
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Ric Haynes was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1945. As a child he made art that told stories, and in the stories he invented his own mythology. In the early 1960’s he attended a boy’s school that encouraged him not to play sports but instead to make art. He was a cartoonist for the school newspaper and edited art for the yearbook and literary magazine.
On a Ford Foundation Grant, Haynes attended the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1964-68, where he studied with Reba Stewart, Jon Schueler, Babe Shapiro, Sal Scarpitta and Peter Milton. He also studied with Walter Murch, Ben Shahn and Philip Pearlstein while attending The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1967. He received a M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Norwich University in 2002. In the fall of 2012 Haynes attended a residency program at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Ric has taught painting, drawing and book arts at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts for sixteen years.
Ric’s works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Library of Congress and the Getty Foundation, as well as other private and public collections.
