Dennis Hayes IV's interview with Re:View's writer, Krysta Stone, is now available on the gallery's Web site.
Dennis Hayes IV is a collector of found objects, a reclaimer
of that which would be trash in the eyes of others.
“I’d rather try to take these materials and make them useful
as a message and make somebody appreciate what was once going to be trash.
That’s why I try to make it look more refined. A lot of reclaimed materials tend
to have a trashy look and I try to avoid that to a certain extent,” he explains.
A graduate of the fine arts program at Alfred University,
where he studied sculpture and video, Hayes simultaneously reclaims items that
have already been consumed and creates a deeply layered commentary about our
culture of consumption.
Square Blue Residue, opening at Re:View
Contemporary on October 3, 2009, features paintings, prints, sculptural pieces,
and installation works that continue Hayes’ previous explorations of portraiture
of birds and abstract representations of elements of our natural world. Hayes’
birds embody human characteristics, such as eyes ripe with human emotion, and
his paintings are rich with references to geometry and math, religion and
science.
