Smack

Hugh Hayden

Smack, 202042.54 x 33.02cmSign in to view price
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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 Hayden
Choir, 2020
81.28 x 243.84 x 76.2cm
Untilted
Hugh Hayden
Untilted, 2021
74.93 x 20.32 x 33.02cm
Nkisi
Hugh Hayden
Nkisi, 2019
22.8 x 26.7 x 24cm
Black walnut/ white oak
Hugh Hayden
Black walnut/ white oak, 2021
71.12 x 134.62 x 86.36cm
Smack
Hugh Hayden
Smack, 2020
42.54 x 33.02cm
Happy Meal
Hugh Hayden
Happy Meal, 2020
45.08 x 33.02 x 11.13cm
TBT
Hugh Hayden
TBT, 2020
38.7 x 25.4 x 5.7cm
Untitled
Hugh Hayden
Untitled, 2021
71.1 x 16.5 x 7cm
Board
Hugh Hayden
Board, 2022
144.8 x 162.6 x 50.8cm
White Oak Ladder
Hugh Hayden
White Oak Ladder, 2019
195 x 71 x 223.5cm
non-stick Ghost
Hugh Hayden
non-stick Ghost, 2020
48.5 x 34 x 5cm
Me, Myself and I
Hugh Hayden
Me, Myself and I, 2020
36 x 24.5 x 8cm
The Witch
Hugh Hayden
The Witch, 2020
37.5 x 34.5 x 7cm
Gumbo
Hugh Hayden
Gumbo, 2020
41.5 x 26 x 25cm
Clearing
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. ...

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