Michael Hayden

Michael Hayden is a painter living in Los Angeles, CA and Javea, Spain. His abstract artworks are created with tinted, melted beeswax mixed with resin known as Encaustic. This medium was created by the Greeks in about 4BC. Because paintings created with wax need a more rigid substrate, lauan ( a thin plywood) is preferred. It just so happens that art shipping crates are made of Lauan too, so many of his paintings are created on broken down art shipping crates from high end galleries in Los Angeles. Many times, the crates have been used to ship art by Warhol, Picasso, Haring and Basquiat, among others. Hayden says he likes the idea of "rubbing elbows" with these masters! To start, he covers the salvaged crates with burlap and beeswax before adding color. Many of Hayden's artworks are large scale and sometimes considered to have a sculptural quality about them. For that reason, most of the artworks are hung by the french cleat method which is commonly used for heavier artworks and mirrors. His use of color field and the horizon line have led many observers to call him "a modern day Rothko". What makes his work unique is the way he incorporates found objects and a variety of other mixed media into his paintings; especially along the...

Day Studio, San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
"Now And Zen", AD Gallery: Contemporary Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA

2013
Gallery Go Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Axiom Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA

2012
"Staring At The Sun", Gallery Go Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2011
"HOT WAX", Terrell Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010
"I Like To Burn Things", S n P Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"New Artist- Michael Hayden", Jeanie Madsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2009
“Wax Ecstatic”, S n P Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Recent Paintings By Michael Hayden”, American Rebel, Los Angeles, CA

2006
"The Traveling Show", The Unknown Theater, Los Angeles, CA

2004
"Encaustic, Mixed Media Paintings By Michael Hayden”, The Coffee Table Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
"Summer Group Show", Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Black", Loft At Liz's, Los Angeles, CA

2017
"Diverted Destruction", Loft At Liz's, Los Angeles, CA

2016
"Blue", Loft At Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
"Transitions", Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Art Makes Change", EarthWE Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2015
"VisionLA Fest", Santa Monica Museum Of Art, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
"Branching Out", Create:Fixate, Los Angeles, CA
"Group Show", AD Galle...