Frank Hayden: Lift Every Voice | Louisiana Art & Science Museum

Among Louisiana’s preeminent sculptors, Frank Hayden is best known for his public commissions, many of them concentrated in and around Baton Rouge where he lived from 1961 until his untimely death at age 53. The most comprehensive to date, this exhibition brought together over 40 artworks from public and private collections, many of them never-before-exhibited, displayed alongside a narrative telling of Hayden’s life story. Works in clay, plaster, fiberglass, wood, and stone demonstrated his personal iconography of form, his interest in both European Modernism and African tribal art, and his concern for spiritual and humanistic themes.

An earlier show in 2015 was named From Clay to Bronze Revisited. Frank Hayden’s 1979 display at LASM demonstrating the traditional lost wax process of bronze casting, called cire perdue, was recreated alongside an approach using 3D modeling and printing technology contributed by sculptor Brad Bourgoyne.

Frank Hayden, Tagorean, c. 1974. Collection of LASM. Middle and Below: Frank Hayden: Lift Every Voice installation views at LASM.