Hugh Hayden, Hedges, 2019.Sculpted wood, lumber, hardware, mirror, and carpet. 144 x 208 x 208 in. (365.8 x 528.3 x 528.3 cm). © Hugh Hayden; Courtesy The Shed Open Call and Lisson Gallery. Photo by Mark Waldhauser.
WALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum presents Hugh Hayden: Home Work, on view through June 1, 2025. The exhibition is Hayden’s first in New England, focusing on the artist’s extensive body of work created over the last decade, including new work and a bold, site-responsive installation conceived especially for the Rose Art Museum. Co-curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, and Dr. Sarah Montross, Chief Curator of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Trustees, Home Work highlights the artist’s critical exploration of the “American Dream.” The artist himself has said: ‘All of my work is about the American dream, whether it’s a table that’s hard to sit at or a thorny school desk. It’s a dream that is seductive but difficult to inhabit.’
The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural assimilation, as well as the construction of nature.…