Mark Borghi

Hayley Youngs creates lavish geometric paintings, alluding to a realm beyond the physical world, both philosophically and spiritually. Employing a visual language of esoteric shapes and curvilinear motifs, she navigates a mystical pictorial space, governed by symmetry, color, and intuitive precision as well as the inclusion of constructed landscapes or fragments of nature from memories of her travels. With a mission to “find the calm within the chaos” amidst a wildly turbulent sociopolitical climate, Youngs’ ongoing series of recent works metaphorize humanity’s journey into the unknown and the societal transformation taking shape in our modern historical moment. Drawing stylistic influence from Art Deco, Psychedelia, and Visionary art traditions, these kaleidoscopic-esque paintings are a timely reflection of the universal desire for balance and positivity, serving as a safe haven for comfort, collective meditation, introspection, and re-orientation.

Hayley Youngs is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and her art has been included in group shows at the Proto Gomez Gallery, Wassaic Project, 5-50 Gallery, IRL Gallery, The Pole Gallery of Paris, Paradice Palase, Satellite Art Show, Snowfields curated by Maria Vogel and more!

Collaborations and features include: Art MAze Magazine, Ain’t Bad Magazine, Ante Magazine, All She Makes magazine in collaboration with Art Girl Rising, Bravery and Co., Odessa Comptoir of Lyon, To Painters to Paintings, etc! You can read more about her work in Youngs’ interviews and Q & A’s with The Know Culture, Create Magazine, and Art Zealous – links below.

“… color awakens a physical sensation, which undoubtedly works upon the soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky

“Concerning the Spiritual in Art”

“Using bright chalky pinks, soft limey greens, and strange neon hot pinks and fuchsias, her world is both old-world garden and hotel marquee. Sometimes she strikes as engaging in a talismanic type of mourning as with her painting Joaquin Phoenix, a cross between a design for stained glass and a futurist tapestry. Other notes in her work feel like fantastic trips or haunted revisionist landscapes from the future.” — Curator Kirsten Lamb