Work Diary

I just received this archived link from
Michael Hernandez De Luna- Axis of Evil lives on in archived infamy! YES!

Nov-Dec

Holiday greeting from Haynerart

I'm anxious for this year to be over with. For the past three months I haven been on crutches with only 5lbs of weight bearing allowed on my left leg. Regardless of my creative urges with my hands occupied and wrapped around crutches- compounded by the pain of screws and a nail hammered down the center of my femur-and all that goes with this type of surgery- I have not been able to accomplish more then rough drafts simulated on the computer.

The good news is I have developed the outlines for new work to be completed in 2010. During my recovery I have spent a lot of time escaping into film. I intend to celebrate the great artists that make this avenue of escape and enjoyment possible. I watched the Wrestler 3 times and would watch it again. Mickey Rouke blew me away in Barfly and now with this flawless and transcendental performance as Randy the Ram, he will be the featured a lot in my new body of work- Pimp Shoes. Happy New year and have a wonderful Holiday Time.

October

I've been hibernating--licking my wounds, after having endured a major surgery in July.
This explains my absence from my art making activities. It was a very painful experience and it is a long and slow recovery on crutches. I'm slowly getting my bearings and beginning to get my creative drive back . Pain can diminish the strongest of fires. I won't be participating in fall open studios but will be back for the spring show.

June

May

Open studio

Slide Show of Hayner Open Studio

Review of Hunters Point Spring Open Studio 09

April

CLICK TO VIEW MAY OPEN STUDIO POST CARD

Shell Shocked – Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mold-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of "the rat race" is not yet final. Rolling Stone-DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

-- HUNTER S. THOMPSON, 1937-2005

Wordslinger An Illuminated Corona

Mixed Media Assemblage
with insert and battery operated light

Obama collages in used frames

This digital collage process is much more complicated then it appears.

1. I have to find and manipulate the photos
2. Adjust the sizes, color modes and intensities
3. Apply different filters or layer styles
4. Print them out on adhesive one inch wide strips/tape
5. Transfer to the final surface while the ink is still wet
6. Manipulate the strip with a skewer to insure proper placement. The ink
is actually sitting on the surface of the material and takes awhile to dry
7. Size the images to fit each individual frame

These are one of a kind collages created on the computer with images
found on the computer. I originally was just going to do 1 or 2, but when I was setting up for open studio, they looked synchronistic exhibited on top of the hung assemblage so I decided to do a spray.

Collages 1-9...

Barack Obama collage #1
9.5" h x 8" w

Michelle Obama collage #2
9.5" h x 11.5 " w

Bo Obama collage #3
9" h x 11 " w

Obamas as teens collage #4
4" h x 4 " w

Obama Malia (born in 1999) and Sasha (born in 2001) collage # 5
8.25 " h x 6.5 " w

Michelle Obama collage #6
6.25" h x 8" w

Barack Obama collage #7
10.5" h x 12.5 " w

Obamas collage #8
8.25" h x6.5" w

Obamas collage #9
8.25" h x6.25" w

Baby Steps
Mixed media on wood

Cat Fur Mobile

"Keylets"

New Hunter Painting
Open Studio Post Card
Finish Typewriter Assemblage
Photograph Enlargements

March

Install Little Boxes Exhibit -take down March 29
Little Boxes Exhibit Reception on the 7th
The Dream Watcher Painting
Twiggy-Studies
Fur Sculptures
Chastity Belts
Bush-Obama Photo Manipulations
Betty Box
Collage Purse
Hunter Vintage Typewriter Assemblage
New Miniature Assemblage'
A Book About Death Postcard Project
Hunter Painting
Baby Steps Collage
Yellow Collage
Lid Assemblage
Photograph Enlargements

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : 1000 ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 500 POST CARDS EACH TO CREATE AN UNBOUND BOOK ABOUT DEATH. EXHIBITION AT THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY. OPENING: THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009.
EXHIBITION: 10 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2009.

http://abookaboutdeath.net/
http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
http://www.emilyharveyfoundation.org/
http://rayjohnsonestate.com/

CONTRIBUTION REID WOOD from
A Book About Death

Since I love mail art and mack daddy Ray Johnson, I'll definitely be participating in this exhibition.

Bush-Obama Photo Manipulations

I'm making great progress on my cat fur sculpture mobile and I finished my
hubcap for Ken Marquis's
artists reclamation project to make art from
Hubcaps

I decided to make mine an homage to one of my favorite artists,
Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 - July 7, 2008)

Homage to Bruce Conner
Deborah Hayner March 2009
for
Landfillart.org

LITTLE BOXES EXHIBITION RECEPTION

Chastity Belt

I'm always on the look out for unorthodox objects, esp. phenomenon that can accommodate miniature assembly. I found this belt at the Goodwill. I had no idea what it was originally intended for but while in line to purchase it, the man behind me told me is was used by fisherman to sit their poles inside . It is very sturdy and old. I could not get my $2.50 out quick enough, as the moment I laid eyes on it; I saw this art work completed.

The Dream Watcher

Misery Incarnation

This art work is going to be featured in the Little Boxes exhibit coming up in a few days.
I finally secured the chains and aged them as well.
In my open studio I exhibit this art work on the floor in the corner.

Photograph by ALMAC.

FEBRUARY

Collecting Lab Glass For Time Machine Bed. Rough Sketches.
Unresolved Paintings-The Face of Tradition And Cellophane Sky Marsh
Portraits
Assemblage
Fur Ball Sculpture
Submission To Books Found Objects

The bad news is that the economy is in the toilet. The good news is that I no longer have to worry about identity theft.

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I finally finished this painting,

The Face of Tradition
h:30" w:40"

I added the car, it was a BITCH to draw and paint-however I'm happy with the results.

Cellophane Sky Marsh

This painting had so many turns the surface became sculptural, so much paint, it became almost encaustic looking. I may do a bit more on it, but not for awhile, it now goes into breathing incubation.

My friend, István Horkay is having an exhibit in Berlin.
He is one of my favorite artists. Please check out his work

www.horkay.com
also
www.bolzanogold.com

Peter Greenaway /István Horkay

Nursery Tales

Cinema Total Second Edition

Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

2009 Február 6. -16.

I'm also working with Elizabeth Jameson again on some mixed media projects.
Elizabeth exhibits bold imaginativeness and brilliance. She is taking her disease and turning it into a positive experience via art, she is a great life author and teacher to all of us.

Elizabeth says...
“I had this brainstorm: If I’am a public interest artist, why don’t I do something with my disease? I thought, ‘What is the symbol of MS to me?’ There are many, but one is the MRI.” Elizabeth Jameson from the article Brains and Beauty A "Public Interest Artist"
Reimagines Her Life and Re-Images the MRI

Click here to view Beautiful Brain

a nine-minute documentary about Elizabeth J. Jameson, courtesy of Cheryl Bowlan.

Jamesonfineart.com

BUGGER

Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand."

"ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND MIXED MEDIA"

Speaking of which
now available

AMERICAN BEAUTY
by Michael Hernandez de Luna

$30.00
136 pages

Publisher: Bad Press Books

"CONTROVERSY FOLLOWS HIM WHEREVER HE GOES"

I've been invited to participate in a four person exhibition in March

Zannah Noe
Dolores Grey
Lex McQuilkin
Deborah Hayner

"LITTLE BOXES ART SHOW"
PRESS RELEASE

at the Femina Potens Gallery in San Francisco
www.feminapotens.org

Artist reception
March 7 2009

I've signed on to Ken Marquis's
artists reclamation project to make art from
Hubcaps

Jan Henderson's Contribution

this type of project is right up my alley, I've requested his raw version of the canvas to
transform, the rusty impaired.

How shall the grimy thaumaturgy unfold?
aaaaahhhhhhhhh
the mystery and exquisiteness that is art

www.landfillart.org

I've just started a new gallery on my main gallery for art to wear
I"ll be posting new images as I do the photography.

also

I'll be doing spring open studio in May
check out Hunters Point Spring Open Studio website .

JANUARY

I originally intended to collect my cats fur to assemble a huge fur ball. Not only is she a great comfort and joy, she is an art supply. As the collection grew,the furs are so beautiful looking as different sized wads that a single fur ball seemed to waste the infinite possibilities. hence .-.I am creating a cat fur sculpture, that will hang from a wire frame.

My idea now is to create a new sculpture every year utilizing that years collection.

2008's collection.

56 years of experimenting with art and I'm still experimenting. I've started off the New Year doing a series of portraits . My original thought was to do these in black and white with minimal color added in specific areas for focal points and overall adding interest to the painting. Painting with grays can be problematic, the subject can look wilted/past tense, however it does interest me to play with the effects. With the Benicio painting I used a photo I found on the internet as my reference material. I don't know who the photographer is or I would certainly make reference to him/her. I would love to use my own original photos but for obvious reasons it is not always possible. So the work then becomes my interpretation of another artist’s art. These are studies and I do hope to do several of each subject.

I am working on a graphic mixed media collaged auto generation collection which is why I have selected characters from the boomer generation, in Benicio's case, not a boomer BUT he is an incredible actor and inspired me based on his talent. In the BDT painting I injected a lot more color then I originally intended,<and mixed dirt into the paint> which may be the case as these paintings progress. He should have won an Oscar for his performance in Things We Lost in the Fire. I am looking forward to CHE and Wolfman.

Benicio Del Toro

I love an educated outlaw, esp. writers and artists who are honest and open about their political incorrectness. (Charles Bukowski comes to mind) There are many aspects to Hunter Thompson that fascinate me. Looks like sunshine lysergic acid diethylamide in the orange paint? N0?

Hunter S Thompson

portraits coming soon
Patti Boyd
Barbara Holden
Twiggy
Gordon Parks

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Time Machine Bed.
Unresolved Paintings-New Paintings
Portraits
American Boomer Book
Assemblage/ Vintage Typewriter
Fur Ball Sculpture
Window Painting

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