Clarity Haynes

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Clarity Haynes
Born1971 (age 54–55)
Education
Known for Painting, writing
Notable workThe Breast Portrait Project
Awards
Website clarityhaynes.com

Clarity Haynes is a queer feminist American artist and writer. She currently lives and works in New York, NY. Haynes is best known for her unconventional painted portraits of torsos, focusing on queer, trans, cis female and nonbinary bodies. She is a former member of the tART Collective and the Corpus VI Collective.

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Education

Haynes holds a BA in Film from Temple University, a CFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College. [1]

Work

Haynes' work focuses heavily on the human body, she believes the moles, wrinkles, stretch marks, veins and such on our bodies are landmarks of our journey through our lives. Her themes often include aging, illness, and mortality. Her work pushes the social conventions of beauty, femininity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Haynes' most controversial work is The Breast Portrait Project, portraying the nude female torso complete with wrinkles and blemishes, in the opposite style from a glamour portrait. The absence of a face compels the viewer to detect character and personality from these less-familiar indicators. [2] This project initially began with a self portrait of her own torso in order to confront her own image issues. After feeling empowered by the portrait, Haynes began doing more of these portraits for friends and soon for complete strangers at festivals. [3] Clarity explains: "I am interested in the many ways the body changes throughout a lifetime, and in the ways in which we create and change our bodies." [4] She even kept record and pictures of each sitter in handmade books for the project full of the women she painted to help heal just like she had. This project was popular with the LGBTQ and feminist communities of the 90s. [3]

Exhibitions

Haynes has had solo exhibitions at Brandeis University's Kniznick Gallery, Payne Gallery at Moravian College, Stout Projects, Bogigian Gallery at Wilson College, and Artists' House Gallery. Her work was included in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the National Portrait Gallery, [5] which traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Ackland Art Museum and the Art Museum of South Texas. [6] She has participated in many group exhibitions, including at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Rutgers University's Paul Robeson Galleries, Invisible-Exports Gallery, Mana Contemporary, [7] and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.

Recognition

Haynes has received numerous awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award, [8] a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, [9] a MacDowell Fellowship, a Brooklyn Arts Council/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Community Regrant Award, a Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant, and a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant.Haynes' work has been discussed in many publications, including the Washington Post, [10] Hyperallergic, [11] [12] Two Coats of Paint, [13] Juxtapoz Magazine, [14] Beautiful Decay Magazine, [15] and the Huffington Post, [16] [17] among others. Her work is included in The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections, Routledge, and Living Out Loud: An Introduction to LGBTQ History, Society, and Culture, Routledge. Her work was featured in Sinister Wisdom's July 2016 issue, Variations. [18] Haynes' work is in the collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, [19] the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, and the Rena Rowan Breast Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Her work is included in the Brooklyn Museum's Feminist Art Base, a digital archive.

Censorship

Haynes' work is frequently censored on social media. [20] She has written about her experience with censorship, [21] and chaired a panel on the subject at the College Art Association Conference in 2019. [22]

Writing

Haynes' writing has appeared in Hyperallergic , [23] Two Coats of Paint, [24] The Brooklyn Rail , [25] ARTnews, [26] and other publications.

Selected writings

References

  1. ↑ "CLARITY HAYNES". clarityhaynes.com. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Portraits of Breasts that Tell Surprisingly Intimate Stories". Hyperallergic. January 23, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Statement". clarityhaynes.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Breast Portrait Project by Clarity Haynes". IGNANT. April 23, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ SkochdopoleE (June 14, 2016). ""The Outwin 2016" Finalist: Clarity Haynes". npg.si.edu. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  6. ↑ "The Kemper's thrilling show of Outwin portraits holds up a timely mirror". Kansas City Pitch. December 27, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Please Touch". Mana Contemporary. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  8. ↑ Selvin, Claire (April 17, 2019). "Pollock-Krasner Foundation Names Winners of $3 M. in Grants". ARTnews. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  9. ↑ Armstrong, Annie (July 10, 2018). "New York Foundation for the Arts Awards 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships". ARTnews. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ Kennicott, Philip (March 11, 2016). "The National Portrait Gallery Announces Winners of the Outwin 2016 Competition". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Artists Show What It's Like to Live in Your Own Skin". Hyperallergic. June 14, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ "The Other Side of Portraiture". Hyperallergic. July 11, 2015. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ Butler, Sharon (February 25, 2016). "Body parts: Clarity Haynes, Catherine Haggarty and Ginny Casey". Two Coats of Paint. Archived from the original on February 29, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Best of 2014: Clarity Haynes' "The Breast Portrait Project". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  15. ↑ Ruddick-Sunstein, Ellyn (April 29, 2014). "Realistic Paintings Of Naked Breasts Make A Powerful Feminist Statement". Beautiful/Decay. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  16. ↑ Frank, Priscilla (April 7, 2014). "Finally, Nude Paintings That Capture The Way The Body Really Looks (NSFW)". HuffPost. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  17. ↑ Insogna, Elizabeth (January 13, 2015). "Clarity Haynes". HuffPost. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  18. ↑ Enszer, Julie R. (October 5, 2016). "Duty of Care: A Q & A with Sinister Wisdom Guest Editor Alexis Clements". HuffPost. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  19. ↑ "Clarity Haynes | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts". www.pafa.org. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  20. ↑ "Clarity Haynes – Artist". Artists Against Social Media Censorship. March 23, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  21. ↑ "I'm a Queer Feminist Artist. Why Are My Paintings Censored on Social Media?". Hyperallergic. March 21, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  22. ↑ Haynes, Clarity (February 14, 2019). "Queer and Feminist Art Censorship in the Age of Social Media". CAA - CAA 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  23. ↑ "Clarity Haynes". Hyperallergic. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  24. ↑ Haynes, Clarity (March 6, 2014). "These threads are queer". Two Coats of Paint. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  25. ↑ Haynes, Clarity (April 6, 2016). "SOUNDING THE NEW CARRIE MOYER Sirens". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  26. ↑ Haynes, Clarity. "Clarity Haynes, Author at ARTnews". ARTnews. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  27. ↑ Haynes, Clarity (June 27, 2019). "Going Beneath the Surface: For 50 Years, Harmony Hammond's Art and Activism Has Championed Queer Women". ARTnews. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  28. ↑ "I'm a Queer Feminist Artist. Why Are My Paintings Censored on Social Media?". Hyperallergic. March 21, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  29. ↑ ""You Have to Get Past the Fear": Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body". Hyperallergic. September 9, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  30. ↑ "How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist". Hyperallergic. March 14, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
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