Hayley Barker
Hayley Barker is an American painter. She makes figurative paintings and drawings that represent psychological spaces.Biography
Hayley Barker was born in Oregon in 1973. She received her BA from the University of Oregon, and her MA & MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa. She has recently had her work featured at , , , , " The Glendale Biennial" curated by at the Brand Library & "The Divine Joke", curated by Barry Schwabsky at . She has shown with for the past several years. She lives & works in Los Angeles, California.
In 2011, Art critic Sue Taylor reviewed Barker's show "Cathedrals" in "Art in America". Taylor writes: Taylor compared Barker's paintings to the work of Georgia O'Keeffe and Vincent van Gogh. Barker's "Cathedrals" is inspired by the childhood diary of Opal Whiteley, who had visionary, spiritual experiences but was later diagnosed as schizophrenic. Taylor writes:
