Drawing from a tradition of meditative American portraiture, with influences ranging from Chuck Close to Kehinde Wiley, Haynes depicts the images with which we find comfort, constructed within the traditional quilting process, layering found cloth pieces, inscribed by thread. With roots in the American South, and an architectural education at Cooper Union, his work lies within the juncture between form and function, art and craft, quilt tradition and contemporary design culture.

His solo exhibition at the C Gallery, Los Alamos, CA, reflected on American nostalgia and national iconography through the media of quilts and manipulated photography. He has participated in the group exhibitions Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes, 360SEE Gallery, Chicago, IL; Bite Sized, Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Showcase, Jan Larsen Art, Brooklyn, NY, as well as My Quilts, a traveling exhibition organized by the Alliance for American Quilts. His work will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition at the Jan Larsen Art Gallery, New York, NY  in October 2010.

At Project Green River, Haynes will be showing quilts from his American Nostalgia collection.

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