Grace Lynne Haynes
Lives & Works in Newark, NJ, United States
Grace Lynne Haynes is a California born visual artist whose work comprises lusciously composed paintings, featuring bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint representative of black female bodies. The artist’s painterly devices lead the viewer to question the very nature of color and how historically symbolic meanings surrounding colors and shades, especially black, are constructed. In Haynes’s work, black appears aspirational, dignified, and sublime. The result is a network of images addressing complex topics and stereotypes surrounding black femininity.
Grace Lynne Haynes, an inaugural member of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency, is included in the 2020 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Art & Style. Her first Los Angeles solo exhibition is in March of 2020 at the Band of Vices Gallery, and she will follow it up with a solo exhibition at Luce Gallery in Italy in 2022. Haynes has exhibited at the Ontario Museum of History and Art, Untitled Art Miami, Dallas Art Fair and Paul Robeson Gallery of Rutgers University (Newark). She was a selected artist in Daily Collector’s online article “20 Painter’s Who Are Shaping the Next Decade”, and her work has been published in LA Weekly, New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, and Culture Type.
Grace Lynne Haynes will be presented by Luce Gallery.
Grace Lynne Haynes, A Misunderstanding, 2022, Gouache and Collage on Paper, 165,1 x 116,8 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin (Italy).
