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Clarity Haynes

Clarity Haynes is an artist, writer and educator living in New York City. Her Breast Portrait Project is a multidisciplinary, socially engaged work that is grounded in the practice of painting from observation. She teaches drawing at Brooklyn College and painting at Trestle Gallery, and is a member of the Corpus VI and tART collectives.

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Art Heals: After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes February 4, 2021February 4, 2021

It took me years to find the language to tell this story.

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“I Call It Blaxidermy”: Pamela Council on Their Art and Aesthetic

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes December 2, 2020December 1, 2020

“As a Black woman artist, I get asked about the political meaning of my work, but I don’t often get asked why it looks the way it does.”

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I’m a Queer Feminist Artist. Why Are My Paintings Censored on Social Media?

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes March 21, 2018November 8, 2021

When a post about my work is removed, suddenly and without permission, it feels like a violation — if not legally, then emotionally, and certainly materially in terms of costs to my career.

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“You Have to Get Past the Fear”: Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes September 9, 2016September 8, 2016

Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body.

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Fragmented Figures Channel the “Struggle of Being in a Body”

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes July 29, 2016July 29, 2016

LOS ANGELES — Breasts, arms, legs, fingers, halved torsos, and a hairy mustache. These are some of the body parts represented in porcelain, paint, photography, and mixed media in Fragmented Gaze, curated by Loren Britton at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Queering Abstract Art with Wrapped, Grommeted, and “Roughed-Up” Paintings

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes May 12, 2016May 12, 2016

Harmony Hammond has had a pioneering impact on art, in particular through her insistence on feminist and queer content in abstract work.

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Drawing a Universe of Cosmic Sexuality

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes October 1, 2015

The artist Eric Fischl once called Amy Myers’s abstract drawings “totems to Cosmic Sexuality.”

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From Grief to Action: Patricia Cronin on Her ‘Shrine for Girls’

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes May 23, 2015May 27, 2015

If you make the pilgrimage to the Venice Biennale this year, among the many artistic spectacles you will encounter is an actual shrine.

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How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes March 14, 2015March 18, 2015

As long as I can remember, I’ve organized and been involved in artist groups and collectives.

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