ARTIST RESIDENCY: TRACY HAYES
OCT. 4 - NOV. 1 2024
The first resident artist, Tracy Hayes, will be onsite Thursday and Friday for October, creating new iterations of her Obliteration Scrolls and incorporating time-based video projection. She will have weekly special demos and workshops during Sound & Color in Concord, NH on October 18 & 19!
The Obliteration Scrolls explores the intersection of language and visual art, using a unique process that combines dark and light media to create compelling stop-motion videos. This residency aims to deepen her exploration of obliteration, balancing tension between anticipation and access.
This is a great chance to witness Tracy’s innovative process and engage in a dialogue about art and language.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Tracy Hayes will be working on drawings, installations and video projection from her Obliteration Scrolls series. The scrolls are personal. Initially, access to a seemingly never ending roll of paper and indulging in a work preference of drawing in intimate settings morphed into an interest in the fickle nature of language and story. Considering poetry as “accepted” text-based subversion to dominant social structures which set rules/norms, I sought clues of what was unsettling, destabilizing and... potentially threatening to mature the syntax within personal visual language. The nature of obscuring while proceeding into the next section led to imagining that this exploration of freedom might be a version of a book, though not literally.
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The timed photos will be sequenced into stop motion video. The working process becomes a performance, the resultant video potentially the work and the actual 2D object assumes less importance.
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"My intent is to work on these Obliterations Scrolls past the point I have achieved until recently, to encourage a more complete disintegration of the working surface, paper, as a natural destructive outcome from the overworking (and documentation) of the water-based media and see what questions arise - as a full expression of literal obliteration. Obliteration of surface with alternating series of black marks and white speaks both to a type of rage but also a need to assert my own pleasure in the making process. The marks resemble a type of language or mantra, or an attempt to speak about the unspeakable." Tracy Hayes
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tracy Hayes is a mixed media artist, she works in series with explorations of charcoal, acrylic and oil on paper and canvas. Her imagery remains vaguely subterranean and emerges from a process that is as reliant upon drawn media layered with painted. There are earthen references that are reiterated within tonal palette. There are also glimpses of what lies within, though entry is barred. Billowing shapes hold viewer aloft and safely at a distance as access points emerge in one instance to then break apart in another. Structures appear briefly only to dissipate and dissolve. These works seek to make sense of a world just outside of reach, beckoning yet elusive.
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