REVIEW
The “Shapes For Shadows” series comes to life in the artist’s show at CB1 Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
By Nicole Borgenicht
October 16, 2015
The abstract ceramic shapes by artist Nathan Hayden could be creatures from another planet or undiscovered breathing life forms surviving deep in the sea. However, they were rolled, pinched and sculpted leaving only a thin, hollow center untouched by human hands. This empty cylinder is in every piece for us to peer through, in his show entitled Talk To The Eye at CB1 Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
While Talk To The Eye and the experience of looking through the art may have a spiritual or even comical connection for us, Hayden describes several other interpretations. “The hole is the third eye, the Cyclops, the center, the core, the mouth, the anus, the internal. All of the sculptures reference the animal/figure in part because they are a pink fleshy color and in part because they are approximately symmetrical. For animals it is important that they have a hole at the top and a hole at the bottom that are connected,” Says Hayden.