Studio Visit: Harrison Haynes

TPP checks in with our favorite artists on their inspiration, work in progress and studio practice.

Harrison Haynes is an artist/musician based in North Carolina. He is the drummer for the band Les Savy Fav and an MFA candidate at Bard College.

Here’s a studio shot which shows some new/ in-progress work: large digital prints of objects (a crash cymbal, a rug, a drum head) that are cut-out and hung or draped to set up a kind of exaggerated trompe l’oeil environment. no titles yet. This is new territory for me: photo as object/sculpture.

Harrison Haynes, studio view, Bard College MFA, July, 2010. Courtesy the artist.

I’m thinking a lot about the sort of places my high school punk band would rehearse, a church basement, a shed, and the objects that would lay around or be used. But then representing all of that through the objects that I still relate to on a daily basis as a musician today.

Currently, his work, in the form of a curated crate of albums and a collaborative songwriting endeavor, is featured in The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl features work by 41 artists from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, who use vinyl records as subject or medium. The exhibition includes sound work, sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video and performance.