Fine Art Chose Me w/ artist Grace Lynne Haynes
We’re excited to have Grace Lynne Haynes on the Noize! Grace is a wonderful young artist whose career is off to a tremendous start. From working on two magazine covers for the New Yorker, attending Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock residency, to solo shows with Band of Vices and Luce Gallery in Italy, Grace’s career is already some other people’s bucket list. We talk about the underlining concepts of her work and how she’s handling such rapid success. You know your boy can’t help but get a little art nerdy about her materials and relationship to color. It's an all around great conversation with one of the talented young Black woman artist that is redefining the image of Black women in art. Listen, subscribe, and share!
Episode 125 topics include:
creating covers for the New Yorker
Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock residency
evolving as an artist
pursuing an MFA
redefining the image of Black women in fine art
the meaning of color
texture and material in art work
Painting by Grace Lynne Haynes
Grace Lynne Haynes is a California born visual artist currently based in New Jersey. She creates lusciously composed paintings containing bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint shaped to represent black female bodies. The artist’s painterly devices lead the viewer to question the very nature of color and how historically symbolic meanings surrounding colors and shades, especially black, are constructed. In Haynes’s work, black appears aspirational, dignified, and sublime. The result is a network of images addressing complex topics and stereotypes surrounding black femininity.
Grace Lynne Haynes, an inaugural member of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency, is included in the 2020 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Art & Style. Her first Los Angeles solo exhibition is in March of 2020 at the Band of Vices Gallery, and she will follow it up with a solo exhibition at Luce Gallery in Italy in 2022. Haynes has exhibited at the Ontario Museum of History and Art, Untitled Art Miami, Dallas Art Fair and Paul Robeson Gallery of Rutgers University, Newark. She was a selected artist in Daily Collector’s online article “20 Painter’s Who Are Shaping the Next Decade”, and her work has been published in LA Weekly, New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, and Culture Type.
See More: www.bygracelynne.com + Grace Lynne Haynes IG
