Frederick Hayes is a visual artist working working in drawing, painting and sculpture.

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I am a visual artist currently based in New York, since 2001. I moved here after spending the early part of my career in California where I studied at the San Francisco Art Institute majoring in painting and drawing. Under the instruction and guidance of some of the leading figures in Bay Area Art at the time including Robert Colescott, Julius Hatofsky, and Richard Berger my worked developed its unique expressionist style. Later, I added sculpture which has sense become a significant part of my practice,. Part idea base, personal experience, and intuitively designed encompassing the notion of working class African American day to day existence, labor, and the class struggle. . I am inspired by the works of Emile Nolde, Max Beckmann and the French Favues painters who placed emphasis on strong paint quality in lieu of exactness as well as the untrained artist of south who use whatever tools and materials at hand to transform their environment through art making. I am influence by the notion of of the “flaneur”, as posit by Walter Benjamin as one who observes urban life and records his or her impressions. In my case through found and recycle materials as well as the photographic image for drawing and painting. am interested in documents that give new insights into the urban environment while recording histories, stories, and culture, both real and imagined of the working class.