Bryan Hiveley

Artist profile: Bryan Hiveley

My sculptures present surface textures that are candy-like and color-saturated; they reverberate in the space between oppositional constructs such as artifice/natural, synthetic/organic.  My goal is not to directly mimic specific objects in nature, but rather to suggest ambiguous biomorfic forms with no discernable identity. The work plays on our attraction to and dependence on idealized, genetically-modified, hot-house-grown aspects of nature; it offers a sanitized, animated version of a living being that has been stripped of a unique biologic identity.  They are Disneyfied, petting-zoo-friendly forms that have been carefully shaped and perfected.  They are well beyond the origin of any offensive physical function or messy tissue that could decay, age, pucker or scar.