left: Using all the Tubes of Red, 2007, oil on signboard, 46x32"
center: The Cloud Catcher, 2006, oil & enamel on signboard, 39x42"
right: The Balance of Existence, 2007, oil & enamel on signboard, 36x31 "




"Hayes's oil on signboard paintings present themselves as collages of torn paper and cardboard on plywood or metal supports, and the trompe l'oeil effects are so convincing that many viewers leave his exhibition assuming that is just what they have seen. The often humorous tableaux are populated by characters that obey the rules of modernist assemblage; we easily read their roughly "torn" components as arms, legs, bodies and heads. Hayes favors matte, dry colors and he makes great use of pink, foamy green and gunmetal blue. Each false tattered edge, painted shadow, smudge scrap of paper and rusted piece of sheet metal is a visual delight. It is impossible to imagine Hayes's bleakly comic images depicted effectively in any other way."

-Art in America, 2000

Selected Exhibitions:

Art House, Austin, TX
Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Rachel Harris Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
ArtPace, San Antonio, TX