Ann Hamilton began her residency at Dieu Donné, a workspace program in New York City, with a unique approach to the exploration of handmade paper. Informed by her initial training in textile design,... Read full biography
Ann Hamilton began her residency at Dieu Donné, a workspace program in New York City, with a unique approach to the exploration of handmade paper. Informed by her initial training in textile design, and later an MFA in sculpture at Yale, Hamilton developed a practice focused on the relationships... Read full biography
Ann Hamilton began her residency at Dieu Donné, a workspace program in New York City, with a unique approach to the exploration of handmade paper. Informed by her initial training in textile design, and later an MFA in sculpture at Yale, Hamilton developed a practice focused on the relationships between tactile and linguistic experience in objects, performances, videos, and large-scale ephemeral installations. Exploring. both visual and verbal forms of apprehension and cognition, her work... Read full biography
Ann Hamilton began her residency at Dieu Donné, a workspace program in New York City, with a unique approach to the exploration of handmade paper. Informed by her initial training in textile design, and later an MFA in sculpture at Yale, Hamilton developed a practice focused on the relationships between tactile and linguistic experience in objects, performances, videos, and large-scale ephemeral installations. Exploring. both visual and verbal forms of apprehension and cognition, her work responds to the sensory knowledge of a body, a specific architectural condition, and the social contexts in which they occur. Hamilton's work in the Dieu Donné papermaking studio began by creating a series of geometric paper forms with embedded silk and... Read full biography
Ann Hamilton began her residency at Dieu Donné, a workspace program in New York City, with a unique approach to the exploration of handmade paper. Informed by her initial training in textile design, and later an MFA in sculpture at Yale, Hamilton developed a practice focused on the relationships between tactile and linguistic experience in objects, performances, videos, and large-scale ephemeral installations. Exploring. both visual and verbal forms of apprehension and cognition, her work responds to the sensory knowledge of a body, a specific architectural condition, and the social contexts in which they occur. Hamilton's work in the Dieu Donné papermaking studio began by creating a series of geometric paper forms with embedded silk and raw wool, which included pockets for the hand, the arm, or the leg, enabling the sheets of thin abaca paper to be worn. Some shapes were concei... Read full biography