Harmony Hammond: Against Seamlessness
“[Hammond] pioneered a visual language that confronted gender, class, and sexual orientation within the higher realms of a painterly abstraction, bridging a sentient and materially rich abstraction with an active social awareness.”
— Amy Smith-Stewart, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Paintings by Harmony Hammond
Foreword by Julia Bryan-Wilson
Essay by Tirza True Latimer
Paperback / 12.25 x 9.5 inches
14 color illustrations / 36 pages
Limited to 750 copies
Signed and numbered by the artist
ISBN: 9781934435441
This book of work by HARMONY HAMMOND includes reproductions of eight new thickly-painted, monochrome and near-monochrome paintings. While these paintings engage with the history of modernist painting—more specifically, narratives of abstraction and monochrome—they come out of post-minimal and feminist concerns with materials and process rather than modernist reduction. They are formal, frontal, reductive, condensed.