About Gil Hayes Art
Punk Rock
Punk Rock
Punk Rock
When I was young i wanted to be the Toulouse Lautrec of punk rock. Punk Art has mostly been just documentary style photography, with a few exceptions. Winston Smith, Raymond Pettibone, Pushead or Marc Rude made art for punk rock. I wanted to create art of punk with Punks & the punk scene as the subject. To explore style, technique, compo
When I was young i wanted to be the Toulouse Lautrec of punk rock. Punk Art has mostly been just documentary style photography, with a few exceptions. Winston Smith, Raymond Pettibone, Pushead or Marc Rude made art for punk rock. I wanted to create art of punk with Punks & the punk scene as the subject. To explore style, technique, composition, color all elements of painting with Punk Rock as the unified thread
DADA
Punk Rock
Punk Rock
I found DaDa through Punk Rock. DaDa is an art movement that predates Punk Rock by 60 some years. DaDa was to visual art as Punk Rock is to music. The ironic thing is that the ideas promoted by DaDa became the prevailing ideas dominating the art world in the latter 20th century. The irony of my work is that being representational subverts the current dominate narrative
Exurbia
Punk Rock
Portraits
As an artist I have long been influenced by the Ashcan School, which to me is visually doing what punk rock does musically. The Ashcan School created a visual narrative that continues through Regionalism & American Scene painting of looking at the real America in a harsh unflinching way. Which is really punk rock. The photography style o
As an artist I have long been influenced by the Ashcan School, which to me is visually doing what punk rock does musically. The Ashcan School created a visual narrative that continues through Regionalism & American Scene painting of looking at the real America in a harsh unflinching way. Which is really punk rock. The photography style of Liminal Spaces or the New Topography, which I think starts with the paintings of Edward Hopper, is a stylistic influence. The Subject is the Inland Empire or the Exurbs of Southern California where I grew up.
Portraits
...and now for something completely different
Portraits
I consider myself a misanthrope & social situations give me anxiety but I dig painting people.
...and now for something completely different
...and now for something completely different
...and now for something completely different
Sometimes I get a wild hair...