Stephen Hayes: Re:place

Oct 7 - 30, 2021
  • Stephen Hayes, Following Our Fates Where They Lead, 2021

    Stephen Hayes

    Following Our Fates Where They Lead, 2021
    oil on canvas on panel
    30 x 30"
  • Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Re:place, a vibrantly evocative series of landscape paintings by Stephen Hayes. The works evoke the natural world in brilliant layers of color and expressive mark-making.

    • Stephen Hayes, Talking and Not Talking at Once, 2021

      Stephen Hayes

      Talking and Not Talking at Once, 2021
      oil on canvas on panel
      30 x 30"
    • Stephen Hayes, A Taste of Springwater, Birdsong Near, 2021

      Stephen Hayes

      A Taste of Springwater, Birdsong Near, 2021
      oil on canvas on panel
      30 x 30"
    • Stephen Hayes, The Moon Splits Open, 2021

      Stephen Hayes

      The Moon Splits Open, 2021
      oil on canvas on panel
      30 x 30"
  • Stephen Hayes, Silence Unweaves the Shroud, 2021

    Stephen Hayes

    Silence Unweaves the Shroud, 2021
    oil on canvas on panel
    30 x 30"
  • In his new body of work, Hayes uses Google Earth perspectives that recreate bodily vantage points. The artist finds digital views that resonate with his plein air painting process and the resulting scenes convey a sublime wonderment in beholding the power of the natural world.

     

    Watch the OPB profile of Stephen Hayes to learn more about the use of Google Earth in his art practice.

  • Controlled as they are by formal elements such as the placement of the horizon line in the vertical center of...

    Controlled as they are by formal elements such as the placement of the horizon line in the vertical center of the canvas, Hayes also allows his paintings to devolve into chaos, giving freedom and natural spontaneity to the paintings.

    LAUREN P. DELLA MONICA, PAINTED LANDSCAPES: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS, 2013

  • Stephen Hayes, Origin and Presence, 2021

    Stephen Hayes

    Origin and Presence, 2021
    oil on canvas on panel
    30 x 30"
    • Stephen Hayes, Carried by a Strong Current, 2021

      Stephen Hayes

      Carried by a Strong Current, 2021
      oil on canvas on panel
      30 x 30"
    • Stephen Hayes, We Are Wind, 2021

      Stephen Hayes

      We Are Wind, 2021
      oil on canvas on panel
      30 x 30"
    • Stephen Hayes, Music, Changing Light, 2021

      Stephen Hayes

      Music, Changing Light, 2021
      oil on canvas on panel
      30 x 30"
  • With conscious deliberation Hayes’s paintings gorgeously entangle abstraction, representation, and conceptual considerations. The scenes of fields, rivers, and forests unfold...
    Now One Place, Now Nowhere, 2021
    oil on canvas on panel
    30 x 30"
    With conscious deliberation Hayes’s paintings gorgeously entangle abstraction, representation, and conceptual considerations. The scenes of fields, rivers, and forests unfold with prolonged engagement and his artworks often upend a viewer’s preconceptions. The sheer beauty of the imagery is immediately seductive while the title Re:place invites further contemplation on broader themes of renewal, reckoning or reconsiderations of our place within these bucolic settings.
  • Watch the conversation with Stephen Hayes, Linda Tesner and Tad Savinar about the series The Hour Before from 2019.
  • Such deft blending of representation and sheer abstraction underpins Hayes’s eminence as a supreme kind of painters’ painter in the...
    Alternations of Night and Day, 2021
    oil on canvas on panel
    30 x 30"

    Such deft blending of representation and sheer abstraction underpins Hayes’s eminence as a supreme kind of painters’ painter in the Pacific Northwest.

    SUE TAYLOR, ART IN AMERICA, 2016

     
     
  • About the Artist