Hayley Tompkins

Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2013
Hayley Tompkins
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
26/07/2013—22/09/2013
  • Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2013
  • Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2013
  • Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2013
  • Hayley Tompkins, Stick, 2013, Acrylic paint, found object, 75.6 x 1 x 1 cm
  • Hayley Tompkins, Rainbow and Bottle, 2013 (detail), Stock photograph, wooden box, glass, plastic bottle, acrylic paint, water, 16.5 x 5.7 x 5.7 cm
  • Hayley Tompkins, Rainbow and Bottle, 2013, Stock photograph, wooden box, glass, plastic bottle, acrylic paint, water, 118.7 x 90.2 x 50.8 cm
  • Hayley Tompkins, Rainbow Over Trees, 2013, Stock photograph, wooden box, glass, 5.1 x 67.9 x 52.1 cm
  • Hayley Tompkins, Wrench, 2013, Stock photograph, wooden box, glass, 5.1 x 36.2 x 47 cm
  • Hayley Tompkins, Metal and Bottle, 2013, Stock photograph, wooden box, glass, plastic bottle, acylic paint, water, 6.4 x 96.5 x 52.1 cm
  • Hayley Tompkins, Cockpit, 2013, Stock photograph, wooden box, glass, plastic bottle, acylic paint, water, 7.6 x 76.2 x 86.4 x cm

In her paintings and painted objects, Hayley Tompkins emphasizes the energy found in small things and economical gestures. From sticks and scraps of wood to spoons and mobile phone casings, her choice of support insistently draws attention to the boundary between painting and reality. Organized in suggestive and deceptively informal arrangements, Tompkins’s minimal, lo-fi objects highlight the acts of looking, touching, and experiencing space. In so doing, Tompkins prompts us to slow down and attend to our surroundings in a concentrated way that is decidedly at odds with the pace of contemporary life. Her exhibition at the AAM is her first solo presentation in a North American institution.