For Venting, Richard Haden will present new and recent hyper-realist sculptures. He sculpts his works from wood and then paints them to uncannily resemble their referents. Haden is also a fierce auto-didact, who takes advantage of the hyper-linked culture that we all have at our fingertips, for instance, he participates in philosophy and cultural studies that are part of a growing online international community who share through open-source education, outside institutional walls; he also contributes to art blogs and participates in lectures that furthers an ongoing critical dialog with current art or cultural practices. With this exhibition, his material and philosophical skills converge. Haden was born in Frankfort, Kentucky and began his art education at the University of Kentucky. He apprenticed with Robert Bourdon in Sheridan, Wyoming, then he moved to Los Angeles, then the Lower East Side in New York, back to the West Coast, then to South Florida and now Miami.

Watch the video of Haden in the studio here: www.wetheat.tv.

(*Image courtesy of Richard Haden.  Video Courtesy of the Wet Heat Project, music by awesome new republic, courtesy of honor roll music.)