Opening Reception Thursday, June 4th 6-9pm
Haynes Riley
Negative
June 4–July 18, 2026
Spaysky Fine Art Gallery llc
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Spaysky Fine Art Gallery llc presents Negative by Haynes Riley: an exhibition navigating relationships (spatial, familial, art historical) using readymade objects, a common material in his practice over the past fifteen years.
The symmetrically bisected camper shell of a pickup truck—a crucial vehicle from the artist’s family that was shared over many years—negates its use as shelter with the two resulting parts rendered as clones. These altered readymades, displayed in an unfamiliar way, float vertically on the walls opposite each other in the gallery space: sculptural forms, mirrored in their placement, mounted to become adjustable masses which direct movement through the negative space that’s created.
The exhibition title references—but drops—the double from Michael Heizer’s landmark earthwork, leaving only the negative: an edit that is both spatial and self-reflexive. Riley is an identical twin; he is also, individually, an artist. The objects together are a double, but the negative space between them is singular.
A new piece in the artist’s on-going series of spray-painted convex mirrors drops the point of an arrow, leaving only the stem: a line that can be interrupted as a horizon, or as the mathematical symbol for minus (= negative). Hanging above the desk in the gallery’s office, the painting operates as a signal for “no entry”: a terminus dividing the public and private spaces of the gallery owner.
Negative also references the photographic term: an image that is exposed and used to produce a positive—an inverted copy of the original.
These works, charged with personal experiences and family relationships, reference Riley’s years as a gallerist and curator and reveal the way these roles are interrelated in his life.
An opening reception will be held on the artist’s mother’s 70th birthday—Thursday, June 4, 2026—from 6–9 p.m. Open hours are on Saturdays from 1–6 p.m. and the exhibition is on view until July 18, 2026.
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For more information, please contact:
info@SFAGLLC.site
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info@SFAGLLC.site
www.SFAGLLC.site
Haynes Riley
Negative
June 4–July 18, 2026
Spaysky Fine Art Gallery llc
Spaysky Fine Art Gallery llc presents Negative by Haynes Riley: an exhibition navigating relationships (spatial, familial, art historical) using readymade objects, a common material in his practice over the past fifteen years.The symmetrically bisected camper shell of a pickup truck—a crucial vehicle from the artist’s family that was shared over many years—negates its use as shelter with the two resulting parts rendered as clones. These altered readymades, displayed in an unfamiliar way, float vertically on the walls opposite each other in the gallery space: sculptural forms, mirrored in their placement, mounted to become adjustable masses which direct movement through the negative space that’s created.
The exhibition title references—but drops—the double from Michael Heizer’s landmark earthwork, leaving only the negative: an edit that is both spatial and self-reflexive. Riley is an identical twin; he is also, individually, an artist. The objects together are a double, but the negative space between them is singular.
A new piece in the artist’s on-going series of spray-painted convex mirrors drops the point of an arrow, leaving only the stem: a line that can be interrupted as a horizon, or as the mathematical symbol for minus (= negative). Hanging above the desk in the gallery’s office, the painting operates as a signal for “no entry”: a terminus dividing the public and private spaces of the gallery owner.
Negative also references the photographic term: an image that is exposed and used to produce a positive—an inverted copy of the original.
These works, charged with personal experiences and family relationships, reference Riley’s years as a gallerist and curator and reveal the way these roles are interrelated in his life.
An opening reception will be held on the artist’s mother’s 70th birthday—Thursday, June 4, 2026—from 6–9 p.m. Open hours are on Saturdays from 1–6 p.m. and the exhibition is on view until July 18, 2026.
For more information, please contact:
info@SFAGLLC.site
info@SFAGLLC.site
www.SFAGLLC.site