Smack

Hugh Hayden

Smack, 202042.54 x 33.02cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
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Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork features a copper-colored, abstract face sculpture mounted on a brass plate. The rounded, bulbous form with its prominent eyes and minimal facial features creates a whimsical, almost alien-like appearance. The smooth, reflective surface of the copper material and the simplistic, yet stylized design suggest an emphasis on form and materiality over realism. The artist likely aimed to explore themes of identity, humanity, or the subconscious through this striking, contemporary sculptural piece. ...

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Hugh Hayden
Artist
Hugh Hayden
B.1983, American

Working primarily with wood, such as American black walnut, red cedar, oak and hornbeam, as well as other materials including steel, cast iron and cocoa butter, Hugh Hayden’s practice and making process is inherently and overtly natural. Hayden selects his materials, collecting rare indigenous timbers, African masks and discarded Christmas trees and trunks, and carves and treats them. He then presents them as assemblages in new relations to one another, creating fresh tensions, dialogues and speculations on materiality and the natural world. The artist anthropomorphises his materials, creating forms such as a red cedar fence, a hornbeam picnic bench and a mesquite dining table that seem to continue their process of transformation, sprouting twisting branches and wooden horns, after having been carved into recognisable objects for human use by Hayden. The artist presents objects laden with multi-layered histories, their provenance and origin seeping from their very sap and varnish. Through simultaneously flattening and unravelling a material’s past, Hayden asks viewers to examine its place within the contemporary moment and an evolving, devolving ecosystem. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Hugh Hayden: Artworks
Choir
Hugh HaydenChoir, 2020Price on Request
Black walnut/ white oak
Hugh HaydenBlack walnut/ white oak, 2021Price on Request
Untilted
Hugh HaydenUntilted, 2021Price on Request
Smack
Hugh HaydenSmack, 2020Price on Request
Happy Meal
Hugh HaydenHappy Meal, 2020Price on Request
TBT
Hugh HaydenTBT, 2020Price on Request
Untitled
Hugh HaydenUntitled, 2021Price on Request
Board
Hugh HaydenBoard, 2022Price on Request
White Oak Ladder
Hugh HaydenWhite Oak Ladder, 2019Price on Request
Nkisi
Hugh HaydenNkisi, 2019Price on Request
non-stick Ghost
Hugh Haydennon-stick Ghost, 2020Price on Request
Me, Myself and I
Hugh HaydenMe, Myself and I, 2020Price on Request
The Witch
Hugh HaydenThe Witch, 2020Price on Request
Gumbo
Hugh HaydenGumbo, 2020Price on Request
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Gallery
Clearing
New York City, Los Angeles, Brussels

C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...