Press
East End Arts is thrilled to announce the winner of Playing with Perspective, their sixth annual national juried art competition and exhibit. Guest juror Sara De Luca, Owner and Director, ILLE ARTS, Amagansett, NY, selected the work for this competition and showcase. Interface, a watercolor by RJT (Toby) Haynes of East Hampton, New York was chosen Best in Show. Haynes will receive a seven-day stay in East End Arts’ artist residence near Hamptons’ museums and galleries, plus $1,000 and inclusion in a group show at Ille Arts Gallery in Amagansett, NY.
Mr. Haynes shares a good-size diptych that is photographic in its execution. One subject, who stands in the ocean in shallow water, may be taking a photo of the other with her phone. Yet each panel can stand alone, even as they are joined visually by the pattern of the water. As matter-of-fact as they look on the surface, the panels demand more than a cursory viewing.
The Parrish video of the curators’ visits to the chosen artists’ studios brought out a key contrast in both painters’ work when it came to photography. Mr. Haynes said in his interview that he preferred working from real life to photography, because of its inability to capture color and shadows accurately…
Article by Judy D’Mello in the East Hampton Star,
April 6, 2017
Toby’s poem Your Case won joint first place at EEAC’s show Diversity
Article by Marion Wolberg Weiss in Dan’s Papers,
January 18th. 2013, on page 36
Toby’s show at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, was reviewed in the Sag Harbor Express
Toby was recently profiled by the Artist’s Road.
Toby recently came in third at the National Juried East End Arts Exhibit. Opening reception is August 31st from 5-7PM with the exhibit open from August 31st thru October 5th.