{"id":20935,"date":"2019-10-17T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=20935"},"modified":"2024-11-07T17:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:31:43","slug":"harmony-hammond-inappropriate-longings-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/harmony-hammond-inappropriate-longings-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony Hammond: Inappropriate Longings (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCRY-3kI4ps\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (2:46): a walk through Harmony Hammond: Inappropriate Longings at the opening in April 2018. A video by Art Fuse.<\/p>\n<p>Description: &#8216;Alexander Gray Associates presents its third exhibition of work by Harmony Hammond (b.1944), Harmony Hammond: Inappropriate Longings. Featuring an installation and a selection of mixed media paintings and works on paper, the exhibition highlights the artist\u2019s practice during the 1990s. These works\u2019 use of materials as visual metaphors for desire, violence, place, and the effects of time, foul weather, and foul play continue Hammond\u2019s ongoing project to \u201cbring content into the world of abstraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hammond\u2019s material metaphors referencing both the body and the landscape create \u201ctroubled sites,\u201d what The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter has called \u201c\u2026. implied narratives of innocence lost through political, domestic, and psychological violation.\u201d Combining oil paint, canvas, and paper with non-traditional materials such as latex rubber, linoleum, straw, leaves, and hair, along with weathered objects salvaged from abandoned farms, she constructs works that occupy a space between painting and sculpture while hinting at transgressions and violence within the domestic setting.<\/p>\n<p>Central to the exhibition is the large tableaux Inappropriate Longings (1992). The installation combines a triptych of oil paint, latex rubber, and linoleum with a metal gutter, a water trough, and dried leaves attached to or placed in front of the painting. The words \u201cgoddamn dyke\u201d incised into the skin-like latex of the triptych interject a violated bodily presence into the work that challenges both the heteronormativity of rural America and abstract painting. As Hammond writes, \u201cThere\u2019s a sense that something happened, but what? The painting is material witness to a crime scene giving clues of events and actions not fully revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hammond continues this evocative material experimentation in other works in the show. In the diptych Untitled (1995), for example, she uses straw and red paint to call up multiple bodies almost touching. Writing about the work, she states, \u201cIt\u2019s about the meeting place, the crack, the space between. The tension of uneasy juxtaposition. A site of negotiation.\u201d Cumulatively, the works in the exhibition continue Hammond\u2019s post-minimal engagement with materials and process and a survivor aesthetic that began with her fabric sculptures in the early 1970s while also anticipating her materially informed paintings of the last decade.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (2:46): a walk through Harmony Hammond: Inappropriate Longings at the opening in April 2018. 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