Jeanette Hayes

Jeanette Hayes

painter / New York

interview by JULIANA BALESTIN
portrait by SANDY KIM

 

Jeanette Hayes uses the Internet and social media as a means to explore the shift in contemporary iconography. Her work takes advantage of the virtual platforms available to artists today and is a study in contrasts between art history references and Internet imagery.

JULIANA BALESTIN — The first time we met we bonded over our love of all things Italian Renaissance and Baroque. Can you tell me a little bit about your art background?
JEANETTE HAYES — I went to an art high school in Chicago. Then I went to Pratt in New York. For all of those eight years I studied painting under a heavy influence of art history. It was not until late in college that I got very interested in contemporary art. I didn’t know so much…