Artists’ Television Access is a nonprofit experimental media arts gallery
that has been in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video
screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists
and a weekly cable access television program.
Barbara Valles Hayes was born in Madrid, Spain. Her training in art and art
history began as a child. At age twelve she was admitted into the drawing
program at Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid. Her training includes
studies at Academia de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Kensington & Chelsea College
in London. Her passion for travel and the ancient Native American cultures
inspired her to take the leap to the American continent, where she continued
her studies at Arizona State University.
In her mixed media paintings, drawings, three-dimensional works, Valles
Hayes uses organic shapes, natural materials, abstraction, and various
compositional effects to establish an anatomy of organization over chaos.
Her work begins at a point of chaos, and evolves through a process that
might involve layering, fragmentation, adding structure or creating an
organized context for the organic. In other works the opposite happens: it
starts with a well-established imprint, and evolves into an organic
composition.
She draws her inspiration from ancient cultures and ethnic spiritual belief
such as the Dogon belief of creation, the Navajo practical belief of dreams,
and ancient philosophy such as Plato’s Allegory of the Cave…The works
slowly unfold, allowing for contemplation through experience, reflection,
and perception, evoking the idea that meaning lives uniquely in each viewer.
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