Work

Frederick Hayes / Small Claims, Case #2 / 2010 / oil on linen / 14 x 11 inches

Frederick Hayes / Spine of the City / 2014 / wood, acrylic, dowels, screws and glue / 96 x 65 x 9 inches

On view through October 31, 2015  – KINGSTON SCULPTURE BIENNIAL 2015

Frederick Hayes /Unhappy Happy People / 2016 / acrylic on canvas / 14 x 11 inches

Frederick Hayes / Talking Loud, Saying Nothing / 2014 / wood, acrylic, dowels, screws and glue / 60 x 41 x 12 inches

Frederick Hayes /Untitled (New Road Same Story) / 2016 / acrylic on canvas / 14 x 11 inches

Frederick Hayes / Cityscape 28 / 2010 / graphite on paper / 51 x 42 inches  (131.58 cm x 108.36 cm)

Frederick Hayes / Morning Glory / 2014 / wood, acrylic, dowels, screws and glue / 36 x 16 x 33 inches

Frederick Hayes / Small Claims, Case #15 / 2010 / oil on linen / 14 x 11 inches

Frederick Hayes / Small Claims, Case #20/ 2010 / oil on linen / 14 x 11 inches

Frederick Hayes / Cityscape 27 / 2010 / graphite on paper / 51 x 42 inches  (131.58 cm x 108.36 cm)

Frederick Hayes / Cityscape 30 / 2010 / graphite on paper / 51 x 42 inches  (131.58 cm x 108.36 cm)

Frederick Hayes / Small Claims, Case #5 / 2010 / oil on linen / 14 x 11 inches

Frederick Hayes / Pregnant Moment / 2014 / wood, acrylic, dowels, screws and glue / 63 x 22 x 19 inches

Frederick Hayes / 2010 / Installation View 2 of City Scape: Drawings, Paintings

Frederick Hayes / Small Claims, Case #9/ 2010 / oil on linen / 14 x 11 inches

Frederick Hayes /RD 7 / 2003 / acrylic on canvas / 18 x 18 inches

Frederick Hayes /RD 6 / 2003 / acrylic on canvas / 18 x 18 inches

Videos

Frederick Hayes / Getting to Know You / 2012 / 51 secs

Art Historian John Zarobell is Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Director of International Studies at the University of San Francisco. Formerly, he held the positions of assistant curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and associate curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is a regular contributor to the San Francisco Art Quarterly (SFAQ) and the online journal Art Practical, has written for numerous exhibition catalogues and has published in Art History, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and the Berkeley Review of Latin-American Studies. His first book, Empire of Landscape, was published in 2010 and his next, Art and the Global Economy, will be published by University of California Press in March 2017.

BIO

Frederick Hayes continues his exploration of African American portraiture, and urban landscape using charcoal and paint. Frederick Hayes’s exhibition takes the viewer on a walk through his city, albeit a fictionalized city. Hayes’s city is filled with faces both known and unknown; billowing cloud formations over geometric urban cityscapes; and detailed brick facades. Hayes comments, “I have an undeniable interest in portraiture, the African American experience, the working class, and the sort of learned approach to art making that manifests itself in various guises and disguises. Each idea or set of images represents a fragment that can function on its on or with other works. For me they are documents that narrate a small piece of what I observe and experience day to day. They are just as much about the materiality of the medium and its process, as they are about a community of thoughts.”

Art critic Roberta Smith wrote in the New York Times, “Mr. Hayesʼs subject might be defined as both the richness and harshness of urban life… Jane Jacobs saw cities as magnets for ‘people with ideas of their own’. These are the people Mr. Hayes paints.” On March 28th, 2010, Ms. Smith again references Hayes in a New York Times article she wrote about painting, “It’s not Dry Yet”: ” Frederick Hayes resurrects the loaded brush and charged forms of Max Beckmann, subject of a recent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.”

In 2004, Frederick Hayes exhibited small paintings of radiators and large drawings of urban landscapes in his first exhibition at PSG. The Addison Gallery of American Art, The New Museum, SFMOMA, and The Studio Museum in Harlem were among the first museums to add Hayes drawings to their collections. Hayes received the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Eureka Fellowship.

Press

September 6, 2015
New York Times
September 6, 2015
Buffalo Rising
August 25, 2011
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
November 19, 2009
New York Times
May 6, 2004
Art in America
September 6, 1999
San Jose Museum of Art
Press Continued