Clay Hawkley

Clay Hawkley likes to shift between ideas every few months or when the work becomes routine. He works with some recurring themes but doesn’t hesitate to go off-script.

He favors variety as a student and in the fabricator and designer roles he’s had as a professional. The materials, processes and ideas that he’s been exposed to outside of the studio inform how and what he makes more than anything.

Clay’s current work investigates power and masculinity with sculpture, drawing and assemblage. He randomly exercises in the studio on DIY exercise equipment as a reminder of his own strength and stamina - and lack thereof.

Clay also augments found objects, images and mottos to examine the vulnerabilities of power and to interrupt narratives that masculinity can be reduced to statistics, physical strength or brute-force.