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8/3/2007

Harrison Haynes

Branch Gallery, Durham

Going Home Is Such a Lonely Ride

Harrison Haynes's work explores the notions of time, space, and memory, concerning itself with the banal comfort of the familiar. Adapted from the lyrics to Dory Previn's, 'Lady with the Braid' (1971), the show's title speaks to the ambiguous and contradictory emotions that occur when one is reacquainted with the familiar specter of home.

Employing formal conventions that convey strong emotional states-of-being such as use of opaque paint colors and the isolation of figures within the landscape-'Haynes's paintings bring to mind the uneasy balance that family relationships dictate. In many of the works, figures, cars, and objects seem to float alone in a sea of color, caught between sky and earth in an uncertain disharmony. Trees and buildings are covered in kudzu, which seems to take over space with an insidious insistence. Here, landscape becomes active, literally bearing down on the paintings' inhabitants in a metaphor for the pressures associated with homecoming.

The works touch on autobiographical themes, drawing from Haynes's own experience returning to his native North Carolina from New York, exploring the anxiety that familiar landscapes can elicit when they move from memory to reality.

Branch Gallery
401c Foster Street - Durham

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