Hayes Friedman         

Hayes Friedman was born in 1942, and has been working as a figure painter since the seventies.

Hayes studied drawing from in situ sculpture in Greece and Italy, and holds graduate degrees in fine arts and the history of art from The American University. The many tertiary aspects of her education include medical school anatomy, Cycladic figure study and post masters study in aesthetic theory and tensions and abstractions in figure painting.

A retired professor of drawing and painting with thirty years cumulative and overlapping experience at the university and college level, Hayes was inducted into Who’s Who Among America’s Educators in 2002.   

Primarily, but not exclusively, a big format painter, her unique and reductive choices result in highly charged yet extremely quiet imagery. Surface distractions, decoration, everything extraneous are eliminated, and what remains is deceptively simple painting which exudes a moody, isolated beauty.

 Her haunting images have been exhibited over 200 times in museums, colleges, universities, public forums and private galleries, and her work is represented in an impressive number of permanent collections both private and public in this country, Europe and South America. Hayes Friedman’s paintings have been written about and photographed extensively for major publications.