Harmony Hammond
"Small Aperture #2", HH-MOND-12-22, 2013
Monotype
12.5 x 10 inches (unframed); 19.5 x 17 inches (framed)
opening bid: $7,500
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This unique mixed-media monotype features a number of gestures and forms that are a part of Hammond’s recurring vocabulary. Working in this process since the 1980s, Hammond’s monotypes represent an extension of her interest in materials and process to push the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Viewing the press as a collaborator, Hammond works in a “state of peripheral control,” or intentional unpredictability, allowing the pressure of the press to move the ink and activate the surface. By applying layers of wet-into-wet ink printed on handmade paper, she imbues these works with a sculptural quality and textured surface that recalls that of patinated metal, skin, and leather.
Harmony Hammond is an artist, art writer, and independent curator. A leading figure in the development of the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970s, she was a co-founder of A.I.R., the first women’s cooperative art gallery in New York (1972), and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (1976). Since 1984, Hammond has lived and worked in northern New Mexico, teaching at the University of Arizona, Tucson from 1989 to 2006. Hammond’s earliest feminist work combined gender politics with post-minimal concerns of materials and process, frequently occupying a space between painting and sculpture.
Work is courtesy Harmony Hammond and Alexander Gray Associates
