Hayley Quentin is a Los Angeles based artist using intuition and technical precision with the goal of merging the intuitive with the analytical (both in the conceptual ideation and reception of her work); using a quiet whisper, a curled finger, to beckon the viewer to linger. Quentin uses colored pencils on canvas in a wholly unique way; essentially painting with pencils using oil glazing techniques, she calls the works of this meticulous process “drawing paintings”. At first glance the eye is seduced with diaphanous color, soft and fuzzy, eliciting the viewer to come closer in an attempt to understand or gain further visual information. The closer one gets, however, the less you’ll be able to see, the pigment dissolving within the texture of the canvas. The work exists in an interstitial space, at the transitional moment where language ends and visuality takes over.

Hayley Quentin attended Otis College of Art and Design, receiving a B.F.A. cum laude in 2008. Quentin’s work has been shown at multiple venues in Los Angeles including Nicodim, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, False Cast Gallery, and Big Pictures Los Angeles. Quentin’s first solo exhibition, Myth, opened in 2019 at Ro2 Art in Dallas, TX. Her work has also been featured in various art publications including Artillery, MATH Magazine (The Art Issue), and Full Blede. She is a current MFA candidate at Otis College of Art and Design, 2023.

Her work has been featured in Anthem, Artforum, Boston Globe, The New York Times, Slate, Vice, Village Voice, Washington Post, among others.