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Hayes Exhibition to Open at Oglethorpe
University Museum
Atlanta – Oglethorpe University Museum is pleased to
announce the exhibition, “Randy Hayes: The World Reveiled.” The
exhibition will run from November 7 through December 19, 1999.
“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.
Founded as Oglethorpe University Art Gallery in 1984 and expanded
in 1993, Oglethorpe University Museum is a nonprofit university
museum whose mission is to bring meaningful culture to Atlanta
through the exhibition of art that is international,
representational, often figurative and spiritual.
Comprised of two spacious galleries, and occupying some 7,000
square feet on the third floor of Lowry Hall and Philip Weltner
Library of Oglethorpe University, OUM offers an attractive and
pleasant environment for the viewing of elegantly curated exhibits.
Oglethorpe University Museum is easily accessible, offers ample
free parking and admits visitors without charge. The Museum Gift
Shop offers gifts from around the world as well as exhibition
related items.
Public viewing hours are Wednesday through Sunday from noon until
5 p.m. For further information about OUM events or to schedule a
docent tour, call (404) 364-8555.
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