Stephen Hayes Artist Talk: Featuring David Naimon
Join us at the gallery for a conversation between Stephen Hayes and David Naimon, award-winning author and host of the literary podcast Between the Covers, as the two discuss Hayes' exhibition, Elegy.
Stephen Hayes has shown his work locally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), The Art Gym at Marylhurst University (Marylhurst, OR), Northwest Museum of Art and Culture (Spokane, WA), American Culture Center (Sapporo and Nagoya, Japan), and The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.). He has had several commissions for public art projects in the region, and his works can be found in the collections of Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR), New York Public Library (New York, NY), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), University of Oregon (Eugene, OR), and Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel (Portland, OR), as well as numerous private and public collections. In 2013 Hayes was the subject of a 30 year career retrospective at the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR), which included a fully illustrated catalogue.
David Naimon is the co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations On Writing (Tin House Books 2018), and the host of the radio show and podcast Between The Covers. His work has been published in Tin House, AGNI, Fourth Genre, Boulevard, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere, reprinted in the Best Small Fictions 2016, and cited in the 2016 Pushcart Prize volume, the Best American Essays 2015, and the Best American Travel Writing 2015. He lives in Portland, OR, and his podcast and writing can be found at www.davidnaimon.com.
