Ann Hamilton Reflection
prints part of Typology- Morphology -- Work from the institute
for Electronic Arts
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Students admiring Ann
Hamilton's prints at the opening of: Typology-
Morphology -- Work from the institute for Electronic Arts, this past Friday
evening. Ann produced this series of prints titled: Reflection, A suite of 12 Iris prints
on Arches watercolor paper. Ann has been to the IEA numerous times since it was
founded in 1997 and has produced several very large print series.
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President Barack Obama will award the National Medal of Arts next week to Ann Hamilton, a visual artist and a professor of art at Ohio State University.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/09/04/osu-art-professor-to-get-national-medal.html
Ann Hamilton was one of the earliest artists to work at
the IEA. Over the years she has returned many times producing a monumental body
of printed works. She often works in large series, from which a selection of
images are then used to produce individual editions. A recent example of this
working practice is the Phora series, which
includes a set of twelve prints that were editioned and two copies of the
complete series of one-hundred-ninety-two prints.
Excerpt from the Exhibition Catalog
about Ann Hamilton
The Reflection Series was the third group
of prints made by Hamilton at the IEA. These images mark the occasion
Hamilton’s installation myein at The United
States Pavilion 48th Venice Biennale 1999. The images are reflections of the
artist on multiple layers of glass that were stacked in preparation for the
construction of a gridded wall that would cross the entire facade of the United
States Pavilion in Venice. Photographed at five minute intervals, the series
documents the shifting weather as seen through the recently uncovered pavilion
skylights.
“She is a
visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her
large-scale multi-media installations. Using time as process and material, her
methods of making serve as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of
communities past and of labor present. Noted for a dense accumulation of
materials, her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that
poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their
sites. Whether inhabiting a building four stories high or confined to the
surface of a thimble, the genesis of Hamilton’s art extends outwards from the
primary projections of the hand and mouth. Her attention to the uttering of a
sound or the shaping of a word with the hand places language and text at the
tactile and metaphoric center of her installations. To enter their liminality
is to be drawn equally into the sensory and linguistic capacities of comprehension
that construct our faculties of memory, reason and imagination.” http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com
Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of
the Heinz Award, MacArthur Fellowship, United
States Artists Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for
Sculpture, and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She represented the United
States in the 1991 Sao Paulo Bienal, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and has
exhibited extensively around the
world. Her major commissions include projects for the Park Avenue Armory, The
Guggenheim Museum, New York,
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, La Maison Rouge Fondation de Antoine
Galbert, Paris, France, The Musee d’art Contemporain, Lyon, France, The
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, The Museum of Modern Art,
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Dia Center
for the Arts, New York, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
