Aching Over, Arching Under, two music stands modified with hand bent steel rods to arch over and under each other, nearly touching
steel, vintage music stands, 2022
Mostly tender, often funny, always a little sad, Haley Lauw’s sculptures are tidy compositions about connection.
Using found objects and waste material from the fabrication industry, Haley’s work is responsive to attachment theory and their experience as a queer person with CPTSD and Bipolar disorder.
They have been a resident artist at The Wassaic Project, ChaNorth, The Pajama Factory, The Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University, The Hive Project at TurnPark Art Space, and Sou’Wester.
Haley is a lead creative fabricator for Matchless Builds.
Unresolved Conversations (detail), made from an old bird cage stand found in Kingston, NY and some steel bent & shoved through the mouths of a flute and a few whistles, 2023
Kissing or Shouting Into Each Others Mouths (detail), whistles, chain, magic; originally installed in The Garage at TurnPark Art Space, the whistles are suspended between the floor and ceiling, 2023
2Anxious2Fuck (detail), an old trombone modified with hand tools to slide inside of itself, 2021
Into and Over, two cymbals cut with a hand saw and inserted into each other create an oloid that supports itself through tension, 2022
Horn if You’re Honky, a sex swing made from ratchet straps and rubber strapping, originally installed in The Farmhouse bedroom at ChaNorth, 2022
Horn if You’re Honky (detail) a sex swing made from ratchet straps and rubber strapping, originally installed in The Farmhouse bedroom at ChaNorth 2022