Nade Haley

Nade Calmes Haley
Born(1947-12-13)December 13, 1947
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
DiedApril 21, 2016(2016-04-21) (aged 68)
Brooklyn, New York, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAtlanta College of Art
Washington University in St. Louis
Known forinstallation, sculpture, public art, drawing
AwardsNational Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony

Nade Haley (December 13, 1947 – April 21, 2016) was an American visual artist whose work has been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries, and is held in public and private collections.[1][2] After relocating from Washington DC, Haley lived and kept studios in New York City and in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.[3]

Awards

The artist received three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Rhode Island state Council for the Arts grants. She received residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.[4]

Education

Haley received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.[5][6]

Teaching

Haley taught art for over three decades. Between 1983 and 2016, the artist held the position of Professor of Spatial Dynamics in the Department of Experimental and Foundational Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where her pedagogy was influenced by the natural world and biophilia. Prior to teaching at RISD, she held appointments at Washington University, Western Michigan University and Montgomery College.[7]

Exhibitions

Haley's sculptural works referenced the complex systems of language, thought, and vision. Janet Goleas, Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Islip Art Museum has written on the exhibition, Nade Haley: Light and Shadow, featured in the permanent collection, "Alongside this notion of cause and effect, Haley has kept a keen eye on the mutability of rational thinking, and she routinely questions organized systems of thought such as religion or the physical sciences, or the natural order of things such as bird migration and other phenomena."[8]

Haley's installation art uses light, reflection and shadows to create environments that reference phenomena in nature.[9][10] The etched glass installation, Falling, at the Islip Museum, "cast shadows of birds in flight" (Susan Hoeltzel, Director of the Lehman College Museum.) The sculptural installation, Curved Space, was shown at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC.[11] The installation won first prize in the Corcoran Area Exhibition.[12][13] Her show, 406, at Diane Brown Gallery combined "drawing in space" and a sculptural grid to create "lines of shadow" in the composition.[12]

New York Times writer, Vivien Raynor, described Haley's 40-foot long outdoor sculpture at Storm King Art Center as "the skeleton of a boat overturned, except that it has A-shaped members that are extended downward, enabling it to stand several feet off the ground."[14]

Between 1977 and 2016, Haley exhibited artwork in over one hundred group exhibitions, and fifteen solo shows, including Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Artpark Gallery, Lewiston, New York; the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York; the RISD Museum of Art, Washington Project for the Arts in Washington DC, Gray Art Gallery, Greenville, North Carolina, and SculptureCenter, New York City, among other venues.[15][16][17][18]

Public art

Haley created permanent, public art works including a commission from the U.S. General Services Administration Art-in-Architecture Program for the Des Moines Federal Building.[19] She was awarded a New York Percent for Art commission for the Multi-media Center at CUNY Lehman College. The 900-square foot permanent installation, Outside In, at Lehman included impressionistic photographs of trees and coaxial cables encased between glass panels, melding the technological realm with the natural world.[20] The artist created a 25-foot public sculpture in Washington, DC.[21] At Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York, Haley produced Inversion (1992), a large-scale concrete gateway installation.[22]

Collections

Haley's work is included in public collections including the Lehniner Institut, Brandenburg, Germany; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina; and the Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY; and Phillip Morris Corporation; and it is held in numerous private collections in the United States and Europe.[23]

Selected reviews

• Forgey, Benjamin. Art News. (September 1980), p. 88.
• Tannous, David. Art in America. (November 1980), pp. 41–43.
• True, Shirley. New Art Examiner. (December 1980), p. 15.
• Lewis, Jo Ann. Art News. (March 1981), p. 189.
• Nadelman, Cynthia. "Nade Haley," Arts Magazine, (May 1988), p. 94.
• Grimes, Nancy. New Art Examiner. (March 1989), p. 52.
• Braff, Phyllis. The New York Times. (November 4, 1990).
• Melrod, George. Sculpture, Volume 12, No. 4. (July–August 1993), pp. 55–56.
• Johnson, Ken. The New York Times. Friday. (January 10, 2003), p. E47.

References

  1. ^ Firmin, Sandra Q. (2010). Artpark 1974-1984. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9780984251810. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  2. ^ Artpark/81 Visual Arts. Lewiston, New York: Artpark. 1981. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  3. ^ Cerquone, Joseph (23 September 1979). "Variety Marks Washington Art Scene". Burlington Hawk Eye. Retrieved 7 May 2016 – via Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "NADE CALMES HALEY PASSES AWAY". RISD Academic Affairs. Rhode Island School of Design. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  5. ^ National Endowment for the Arts (1985). "National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report". GoogleBooks. Contributors : National Endowment for the Arts. Office of Communications, National Endowment for the Arts. Office of Public Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts. Public Information Office. National Endowment for the Arts, National Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts. Office of Communications, National Endowment for the Arts. Office of Public Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts. Public Information Office. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  6. ^ Princenthal, Nancy; Dowley, Jennifer (2001). A Creative Legacy: a history of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship Program. H.N. Abrams in association with the National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 9780810941700. Retrieved 23 April 2016. Nade Haley.
  7. ^ "Nade Haley 1947-2016". Our RISD. Rhode Island School of Design. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  8. ^ Golias, Janet (2004). Nade Haley: Falling. East Islip New York: Islip Art Museum. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  9. ^ Georgia, Olivia (1980). Drawn in Space: Roy Breimon, Nade Haley, Patrick Ireland, Jeff Schiff, Richard Tuttle, Sibyl Weil. Washington DC: Washington Project for the Arts. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  10. ^ Maloni, J (April 24, 2013). "Artpark celebrates 40 years with dynamic summer calendar". Niagara Frontier Publications. wnypapers.com. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  11. ^ Fitzsimmons, James (1979). "Nade Haley". Art International. 23: 42. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  12. ^ a b Lewis, Jo Ann (17 January 1981). "Elephants on Parade". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  13. ^ Richard, Paul (14 October 1978). "Scholarly Stories in Sculpture". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  14. ^ Raynor, Vivien (August 6, 1989). "A Sculpture Show With Strong Messages". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  15. ^ Zimmer, William (October 17, 1999). "Hudson River School Just Keeps on Rolling; Artists Over the Years Have Taken Up the Mantle of the Founders of an American Genre, Landscape Painting". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  16. ^ Jacob, Mary Jane; Brenson, Michael (1998). Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262100724. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  17. ^ Princenthal, Nancy (1996). Nade Haley, An Installation in the Sculpture Garden. Katona, New York: Katona Museum of Art.
  18. ^ "Water is the subject of Nade Haley's new exhibition at ART 101", artforum.com, Artforum Magazine
  19. ^ "Making Progress" (PDF). RISDviews. Rhode Island School of Design. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  20. ^ "Outside In". Lehman College. Lehman College Multimedia Center. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  21. ^ Lawrence, Sidney (21 September 1980). "New Forms of Public Art are Emerging". Brownsville Herald.
  22. ^ Exhibition 50 New York, 1993. "Nade Haley". Socrates Sculpture Park. Retrieved 23 April 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ Kramarsky, Werner; Eshoo, Amy; Cartwright, Derrick (2008). 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300135398. OCLC 140107865.