{"id":18211,"date":"2018-02-12T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T09:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=18211"},"modified":"2018-02-12T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T09:36:29","slug":"adaa-the-art-show-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/adaa-the-art-show-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"ADAA: The Art Show in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPink Weave, 1975 by Harmony Hammond. Oil and Dorland’s wax on canvas 24.50h x 24.50w in (62.23h x 62.23w cm)<\/em><\/p>\n

ADAA: The Art Show, New York
\nHarmony Hammond
\nThe Weave Paintings
\nFebruary 28 \u2013 March 4, 2018<\/p>\n

Alexander Gray Associates presents a curated selection of Harmony Hammond\u2019s \u201cWeave Paintings<\/em>\u201d (1973\u20141977), which embody an intersection of painting and sculpture that remains central to the artist\u2019s practice to this day. With this series, Hammond broke new ground, claiming a queer and oppositional space in process-based abstract painting at the height of second-wave feminist activism.<\/p>\n

Harmony Hammond<\/a> moved to New York City in 1969, where she rejected her early training as a representational painter and began utilizing found fabrics and acrylic paint to create sculptural assemblages. She co-founded A.I.R., the first women\u2019s cooperative art gallery in New York (1972) and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics<\/em> (1976). It was during this early period of advocacy on behalf of female artists that she created her weave series. To make these paintings, Hammond applied successive layers of oil paint mixed with Dorland\u2019s wax, incising the still wet surface with three-dimensional weave patterns that include points and burrs of paint. These pieces can appear dangerous to the viewer\u2019s touch but are actually quite fragile. Hammond\u2019s process of layering and marking the painted surface results in objects that reference and subvert textile traditions in craft and Modernism\u2014from Anni Albers\u2019 Bauhaus experiments to native North American basket-weaving. On this visual motif Hammond says, \u201cWeaving, of course, implies the grid, and the grid can suggest weaving. If you think of stitching as marking, and marking in gridded space, then before you know it, you are into pattern and decoration\u2026I was always very interested in the notion of the stitching as a repetitive gesture – reflecting the repetition in women’s lives – and a connective gesture – a means of piecing together or building \u2018wholes\u2019 out of fragments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hammond\u2019s creation of tactile surfaces in works such as Green Veil<\/em> (1975) result in what she calls \u201cfugitive\u201d color that is fluid and difficult to place. She asserts her paintings \u201cperform queerly\u201d due to her utilization of mutable and inexact \u201cnear monochrome.\u201d In her practice, abstraction does not preclude social engagement; her weave paintings epitomize an integration of political content into rigorous formal experimentation, an approach that art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson describes as \u201cthe space of the between.\u201d This concurrent embrace and subversion of modernist traditions is apparent in her use of lozenge-shaped canvases in paintings such as Letting the Weather Get In<\/em> (1977). As the artist describes, this configuration \u201cwas lumpy and bumpy, irregular \u2013 presencing the body. When you\u2019re incising into the painting surface, you\u2019re incising into the body\u2026. What was happening on the painting\u2019s surface with its subtly curved edges, was mirrored in the shape.\u201d She makes specific reference to the female body; the purposeful irregularities of the paint reflect the imperfections and nuances of each woman\u2019s skin. In building up thick impasto layers of paint, Hammond armors and empowers the skin-like surface. This group of work intentionally invites queer and feminist content by positioning the painting as a site of negotiation between what exists inside and outside the picture plane. Her recent bandaged and wrapped canvases, still in near-monochrome, mimic and expand upon the patterns of the incised surfaces of these pioneering earlier \u201cWeave Paintings<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADAA: The Art Show, New York
\nHarmony Hammond
\nThe Weave Paintings
\nFebruary 28 \u2013 March 4, 2018
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