Visual Arts Department
Winter Exhibition - Screens
Curated by Jeanette Hayes, painter/multimedia artist based in New York, and Chicago Academy for the Arts class of ‘08
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
How do we see and interact with the world? With what must we come into contact first? What obscures our vision? Screens shift and morph based on individual perspective and affect the way we see the world. However screens go both ways, perhaps it also affects how the world sees us.
Today we are constantly looking through a screen. They separate and yet, paradoxically, they allow us to connect. But screens are not limited to technology, they are what we must interact with first before looking beyond. They are literal window screens, obstructions, mirrors and much more. In “Screens” we expand upon our understanding of what a screen is and how they impact us.
ABOUT JEANETTE HAYES
Jeanette Hayes (b. 1989) is a painter/multimedia artist based in New York. Originally from Chicago, Hayes moved to NYC and received a BFA from Pratt Institute. Her work addresses the traditional preservation of non-traditional technological and pop imagery through painting, video, digital manipulation, and Internet collages. Hayes’ interests include cultural phenomena and the confrontation of conventionality and subject matter. Her fascination with the amalgamation of images we each navigate through everyday and their correlations to civilization and ownership in 2019 has propelled her practice. With international solo shows in Sweden, Italy and Belgium, Hayes has also shown in New York Hayes at Half Gallery, the Hole, Regina Rex, Castor Gallery, Romeo, Bleecker Street Arts Club, the National Arts Club and more. Most recently, Hayes was curated by the Culture Corps to create a public art installation at the Hudson Yards, which is currently on view. Jeanette Hayes has made animated GIFs and videos for Proenza Schouler, CHANEL, Alexander Wang, Cynthia Rowley, Vogue and Opening Ceremony. She has received artist sponsorships from BlackBerry and Blick Art and was chosen by Purple magazine to create their artist book in 2016, which she titled "five". Hayes has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue Japan, i-D, Complex Magazine, Interview Magazine, Dazed, the Coveteur, Purple Magazine, Paper Magazine, Playboy and TimeOut New York chose Hayes as one of the “5 most important new artists in New York City.” Jeanette Hayes lives and works in New York City.
