Sherman Hay

Acrylic Paintings

Beginning with his astonishing free-hand paintings of his sculpture Shrine for the Absurd and ending in the surrealistic organic dream of As The World Changes, Hay's paintings represent a lifelong voyage in form, politics, and family through constructivism, abstraction, and surrealism. A self-taught painter, Hay preferred to work in acrylics and incorporated graphite drawings into a number of his paintings. Many of his paintings took a year's time to complete due to the demands of their precision and detail.

Applicable to most of his later paintings, Hay wrote of In Flux: "This image depicts the chaos and movement that we all are subjected to within our lives; it is a world of psychological illusions that appear before each of us as we try to make sense out of our daily lives and future. The individuals are each responding to their place in their own visual experiences… We are all locked into forces that are too powerful to understand.”