Frank Haines

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Frank Haines (born 1973, Detroit, Michigan) is an artist, performer, publisher, and writer based in New York City.

Visual Art

Haines works across a variety of mediums including video, works on paper, sculpture and stained glass. Haines visual art has long been informed by Vipassana, the Western Tradition of Magic, the Jungian concept of the shadow and the history of Entheogens.

Exhibitions

Haines first solo exhibition was at Quotidian Gallery in San Francisco in 2001. He has had subsequent solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley gallery in San Francisco (2004).. Locust Projects in Miami (2005), ThreeWalls in Chicago (2006) Lisa Cooley Gallery in New York (2009, 2011) and AMP in Athens, Greece (2011).
In addition Haines has had 2 persons shows with Mariah Dekkenga at Aetopolous in Athens, Greece (2018), Jerry the Marble Faun at Second Floor Projects in San Francisco (2017) and Christopher Garrett at Bas Fisher Invitational (2013).

Performance

Haines’ has performed as a number of stage entities. Haines performance work began in Chicago in 2006 in a performance/solo exhibit curated by Shannon Stratton at Three Walls Chicago

Blanko & Noiry

Begun in 2006, Blanko & Noiry are a multi-generational performance collaborative featuring Chris Kachulis, Frank Haines and Reuben Lorch-Miller whose work is based on mutual interests in ritual, Vaudeville, show tunes, the occult, psychodrama, Viennese Actionism and experimental electronic music. Blanko & Noiry have performed numerous times all over New York City at Moma Ps1, Gavin Brown Enterprise, The Slipper Room, The Cake Shop, Union Pool, The Kitchen, Ramiken Crucible and Essex Flowers.

Francis Heinzfeller

In 2011 Haines debuted a new persona named Francis Heinzfeller. This entity came to Haines while sitting in Berlin’s Treptower Park listening to Wolf Eyes . Heinzfeller’s first performance was at Basso in Berlin. Heinzfeller manifested three more times : in the woods at Delphi, New York, at Santos Party Haus in New York, and at the Knockout in San Francisco.

Sandy Smiles

Haines has been performing as Sandy Smiles since their debut at Situations gallery in July 2017. Sandy has sinced performed at the Berkeley Art Museum (2017), Demo Gallery in Austin(2017), Union Pool,Brookyln(2018), Latraac Athens,Greece(2018), Worm in Rotterdam, Netherlands(2018), WestGermany in Berlin(2018), AU in Vienna, Austria(2018), and Delicious Clam in Sheffield, England(2018).

Nastie Band

Nastie Band was formed in 2015 with Haines, Pat Delaney, Rose Kallal and Robbie Macdonald. Many notable musicians have played in Nastie Band and the stage personnel is elastic.

Writing

In 2017 Old Gold published Haines first book Florida Damage Report. Borrowing from the writing format of Joe Brainard’s I Remember, Haines chronicles his chaotic and violent years growing up in Central Florida. The majority of the centers on Haines’ being institutionalized for 13 months in Straight Inc, a controversial drug rehabilitation that was shut down due to widespread abuse. The book also includes an essay by Cedar Sigo.

Curating

An Inventory of Lucifer’s Grotto

Haines and Jackie Klempay curated an group exhibit at her eponymous gallery that opened on December 13, 2014. In addition to the art works on display there were magical objects from the collections of both Breyer P-Orridge & Sue and Peter Seals. A catalog was made for the exhibition.

Zeena Schreck: Live from the Eye of the Storm

In 2013 Haines was able to invite a signifigant influence of his to perform in New York. On November 8, 2013, the visual art performance biennial Performa presented Zeena Schreck accompanied by New York musician Hisham Bharoocha (first percussion) and Danish musician Anders Hermund (second percussion), for a vocal based work that tapped into the ritual use of sacred syllables from Vajrayana, Shaktism and Sethian-Typhonian left-way tantric practices, "originating from emptiness, gradually transforming into a sound and voice collage on a stage set design by Frank Haines." This was Zeena's first solo performance in her native country since her expatriation to Europe in 1990.
David Sanderson described the event, "Jingling bells and padded footsteps echoed in the darkness. The curtains silently parted, dramatically revealing an electrified, vermilion environment. Dead center, with hands held in the Mudra position, stood the seemingly twenty-foot tall goddess Zeena. With a painted gong behind her, Bharoocha and Hermund adorned her sides. Bharoocha lit incense that swept through the audience as Zeena's commanding gaze pierced us all (everyone I talked to after the show swore she was staring directly at them)."

Blood Transfusion for a Ghost

In 2009 Haines was invited by curator Kate McNamara to put together a night of performance in conjunction with the Kenneth Anger exhibition showing at Moma PS1. Haines separated the gallery into 4 quadrants that contained stages which were activated by the performers. Cedar Sigo, Rose Kallal, Mark Beasley, Miracle of Birth and Blanko & Noiry performed.

Sunshine State

In 2001 Haines curated a show at Quotidian Gallery in San Francisco. The show consisted of 6 local artists who had grown up in Florida. A book of essays about Florida (including from Florida Death Row Inmates) was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Publishing

In 2014 Haines began the publishing imprint Heinzfeller Nileisist. The imprint started after Haines first self published book Frank Exchangeswhich contained interviews with 26 of Haines' artist peers. Heinzfeller Nileisist has published over 20 titles and participates regularly in Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair as well as the LA Art Book Fair

Teaching

Haines has twice appeared on the faculty of the Golden Dome (a nomadic mystery school dedicated to investigating intentional living and art making as it relates to cultivating ideas for sustaining and optimizing life on Earth) under the themes of The Magician and The Empress

Music Videos

In 2016 Haines directed a music video for Brooklyn Band Honey. The Fader described it as a “deranged occultish music video”

External Links

• Artist Personal Webpage
• Heinzfeller Nileisist (Publishing)
• Honey Monk Video

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