Ann Hamilton | Sense | Viewing Room
Installation view of the exhibition, Sense.
Sense is contact, is the touch of human and non-human animals, is the fold of woven cloth, is words in fragments and in woven lines and like all making comes from acts of attentions, both finding and composing, touching and being touched.
– ANN HAMILTON
Installation view of the exhibition, Sense.
Ann Hamilton
sense · ceramic pitcher, sense · ceramic pitcher, 2022
archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper
49.5 x 32" image each, 67.5 x 33.5" paper each
Variable Edition of 2, 1AP
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Ann Hamilton
sense · net sinkers, 2022, sense · study skin of a puffin, 2022, and sense · tulip polar leaf, 2022
archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper
49.5 x 32" image each, 67.5 x 33.5" paper each
Variable Edition of 2, 1AP
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Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present our second solo exhibition with Ann Hamilton. Featuring unique paper and cloth prints and collages, this new work is conceived in conjunction with the upcoming release of Hamilton’s publication with Radius Books and shares its title: Sense.
The publication by Radius Books, SENSE: Ann Hamilton.
Interior view of the book SENSE: Ann Hamilton.
While Hamilton is best known for the material surround and tactility of her large, site responsive installations, this recent body of work focuses on the photographic and evolves from processes developed over the last decade working with shallow depth of field flatbed scanners and occluding membranes to image animal specimens, stones, fallen leaves and people.
Installation view of the exhibition, Sense.
Ann Hamilton, individual prints
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The shallow focus of the fallen leaves and bird study skins installed in the Front Gallery detail and magnify where skin and leaf make contact with the scanner glass and shadow where they bend and lift away. The simultaneous detail of focus and blur, of proximity and distance creates a felt sense of each specimen as it folds, curls, bends and dries in its individual and unique way. The images, printed on tissue weight Japanese gampi paper, mounted to cloth and suspended from metal rods form a scroll-like landscape and surround, fully filling the gallery walls.
Ann Hamilton
sense · study skin of an American golden plover, 2022 and sense · fallen leaf, 2022 (installation view)
archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper
49.5 x 32" image each, 67.5 x 33.5" paper each, 113.5 x 34" installed each
Variable Edition of 2, 1AP
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Ann Hamilton
sense · study skins of lesser roadrunners, sense · study skins of lesser roadrunners, 2022
archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper
49.5 x 32" image each, 67.5 x 33.5" paper each
Variable Edition of 2, 1AP
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Ann Hamilton
sense · lily and stem, 2022
archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper
49.5 x 32" image, 67.5 x 33.5" paper
Variable Edition of 2, 1AP
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Ann Hamilton
Side-by-Side · Ivory Figurine l, 2018
archival pigment print on gampi paper, cloth backed
78.75 x 102"
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Hamilton’s practice has long explored the relation between text and textile and the interior second gallery exhibits her more intimate collage work and ongoing series pages. In these new diptychs and triptychs the color, opacity and transparency of cloth fragments meets the abstractness of language sifted from loose fragments of sliced books, themselves the residue of another project. Mounted to book endpapers, these singular words and phrases, the textile’s imperfect geometric shapes, and the delicately unraveled threads are simultaneously commonplace and lyric.
Installation images of Hamilton’s book endpaper collages.
Collected word cut-outs from books, used in the book endpaper collages. Image provide by the artist.
Ann Hamilton
complete in itself · here · untitled , 2022
unique cloth and word collage on book endpapers
8 x 5" paper (each), 18.5 x 31" framed overall
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Ann Hamilton
sense · study skin of an albino American crow, 2022 and sense · chinquapin oak, 2022 (installation view)
archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper
49.5 x 32" image each, 67.5 x 33.5" paper each, 113.5 x 34" installed each
Variable Edition of 2, 1AP
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The scanning process. Images provided by the artist.
Ann Hamilton
sense · study skin of a sandpiper, sense · study skin of a sandpiper, 2022
archival pigment print on Japanese gampi paper
49.5 x 32" image each, 67.5 x 33.5" paper each
Variable Edition of 2, 1AP
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Installation view of the record player and concordance, 2022 (above).
Listen to the whistling song by vocalist Emily Eagen that accompanies the exhibition
Ann Hamilton
concordance, 2022 (detail)
generated from essay contributions to Emergence Magazine Vol. 3, folded newsprint
24 x 18"
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Installation view of the exhibition, Sense.
Ann Hamilton
distance · cold, 2022
unique cloth and word collage on book endpapers
8 x 5" paper (each), 18.5 x 17.5" framed overall
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Learn more about Sense in this exclusive video interview with Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton is internationally recognized for her large-scale multimedia installations. Using time as process and material, her methods of making serve as an invocation of place, collective voice, communities past and of labor present. Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, the MacArthur Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Hamilton represented the United States in the 1999 Venice Biennale, and has exhibited extensively around the world including a museum-wide installation at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA) in 2015 and 1992. Her work is included in the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), among many others.
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