Artist Information:
Martha Hayden
Sharon, WI
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
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Artist Statement:
My painting is both realistic and abstract, it is on that elusive edge between there and not there. On first look everything is in place, then all dissolves. I want realism and abstraction to take turns. I want a painting sometimes very evocative of time and place, sometimes overwhelming in abstract, structural logic. I look for a surprise, a drama, a different way of seeing. I try not to see anything for itself alone, but as a part of the whole. In this context, my subjects take on meanings other than the accustomed ones. They are more than still life and landscape; they are comments on thinking and seeing.
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Artist Exhibitions:
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)
The Interchurch Center, Treasure Room Gallery, New York City, Jan 11-Feb 17, 2006
Schauer Art Center, Hartford, WI, Dec 3, 2004-Jan 10, 2005
Jasper Art Center, Jasper, Indiana, October 7-29, 2004
Morse Cooper Gallery, Janesville, WI, July 2004
Center for the Visual Arts, ...
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Collections:
COLLECTIONS (selected)
Museo do Arte Moderno, Sao Paulo, Brazil
City Museum of Salzburg, Austria
Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City
Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
Museum of the City of New York
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Commissions:
Forum Mural for the City of Beloit (WI) Municipal Building, 6 feet x 92 feet, 1985-6...
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Martha Hayden's Free Artist Portfolio
| Welcome to Martha Hayden's Portfolio. Browse Hayden's body of work: My painting is both realistic and abstract, it is on that elusive edge between there and not there. On first look everything is in place, then all dissolves. I want realism and abstraction to take turns. I want a painting sometimes very evocative of time and place, sometimes overwhelming in abstract, structural logic. I look for a surprise, a drama, a different way of seeing. I try not to see anything for itself alone, but as a part of the whole. In this context, my subjects take on meanings other than the accustomed ones. They are more than still life ... | |
Self Portrait, 2005 Oil Painting, 70 x 54 X 2 inches Price: US$ 10000 €: 6387 UK £: 4950 ¥en: 993261

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The Expulsion, 2007 Oil Painting, 70 x 54 X 2 inches Price: US$ 10000 €: 6387 UK £: 4950 ¥en: 993261

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Pink Table, 2008 Oil Painting, 38 x 32 X 2 inches Price: US$ 2500 €: 1596 UK £: 1237 ¥en: 248315

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The Allegory of Painting, 2006 Oil Painting, 70 x 54 X 2 inches Price: US$ 10000 €: 6387 UK £: 4950 ¥en: 993261

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The Gurzon Valley, 2008 Etching, 12 x 12 X 1 inches Price: US$ 225 €: 143 UK £: 111 ¥en: 22348

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Luncheon in the Studio, 2007 Oil Painting, 70 x 54 X 2 inches Price: US$ 10000 €: 6387 UK £: 4950 ¥en: 993261

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