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Hayley Barker (born 1973) is an American painter. She makes paintings and drawings about spiritual experience, landscape, ritual, and the body.
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She earned her BA from the University of Oregon (1996); MA and MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa (2000, 2001); and her MAT from Lewis & Clark College (2007). She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Art critic and Portland State University Professor Sue Taylor reviewed Barker's show "Cathedrals" (2011) in "Art in America". Taylor writes:
In depictions of sylvan streams and animated skies, Barker conveys a hypersensitive communion with the environment; in the process, she also imparts, with thick impasto and buttery surfaces, an ecstatic sense of the sumptuous materiality of oil paint.
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 the legendary Opal Whiteley (1897-1992), who had visionary, spiritual experiences but was later diagnosed as schizophrenic. Taylor writes:
In art, as in religion and madness, consciousness can be other than ordinary. Barker strives to imagine and approximate this deranged susceptibility, listening attentively for voices in the wind.