Lisson Gallery

Lisson Gallery in New York presents an exhibition of new works by Texas-born artist Hugh Hayden, featuring sculptures created from wood indigenous to the United States and Mexico border. Hayden's sculptures explore themes of assimilation and acceptance, using a rigorous process of combining disparate types of wood to create new composite forms that disrupt traditional American social context.

In this exhibition, Hayden investigates notions of citizenship, manifest destiny, and the contested boundaries between people and nations. The sculptures, made from wood collected in highly politicized areas, embody the idealistic US notions of family values and home ownership, but also reflect the current crisis of America's characteristic optimism and the widely-held ideals of the American dream.

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