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Born 1943 Springfield, Illinois. Known for: Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre.
David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois. An African-American, he is a conceptual installation artist using his found-object media as a platform for Dadaist social commentary,... Read full biography
David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois. An African-American, he is a conceptual installation artist using his found-object media as a platform for Dadaist social commentary, primarily on racial themes. Hammons places himself as an artist between Arte Povera and Marcel Duchamp. He... Read full biography
David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois. An African-American, he is a conceptual installation artist using his found-object media as a platform for Dadaist social commentary, primarily on racial themes. Hammons places himself as an artist between Arte Povera and Marcel Duchamp. He has risen to prominence while at the same time consciously avoiding the attention of critics, galleries, and museums, preferring to do things in the street. Although he studied art in Los Angeles at... Read full biography
David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois. An African-American, he is a conceptual installation artist using his found-object media as a platform for Dadaist social commentary, primarily on racial themes. Hammons places himself as an artist between Arte Povera and Marcel Duchamp. He has risen to prominence while at the same time consciously avoiding the attention of critics, galleries, and museums, preferring to do things in the street. Although he studied art in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute, and, in New York City at the Parson's School of Design, he has stated, "I can't stand art actually. I've never, ever liked art, ever. I never took it in school.". Hammons' Basketball Drawing, 2001,... Read full biography
David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois. An African-American, he is a conceptual installation artist using his found-object media as a platform for Dadaist social commentary, primarily on racial themes. Hammons places himself as an artist between Arte Povera and Marcel Duchamp. He has risen to prominence while at the same time consciously avoiding the attention of critics, galleries, and museums, preferring to do things in the street. Although he studied art in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute, and, in New York City at the Parson's School of Design, he has stated, "I can't stand art actually. I've never, ever liked art, ever. I never took it in school.". Hammons' Basketball Drawing, 2001, 116 x 46 x 12, in the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, features a framed and matted sheet of paper ten feet high... Read full biography
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Keywords (39)
Art Method
- •Conceptual
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Silhouettist
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Assemblage
- •Batik, Tie-Dye
- •Bronze
- •Enamel Paint
- •Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wire
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Silhouettes, Silhouette Portraiture
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Art School
- •Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts, Student
- •Otis Art Institute, (Otis College of Art & Design) Student
- •Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstract Sculpture Specialty
- •Figure Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Studio Museum, Harlem