Biography of ann hamilton artist
'T' Space Rhinebeck
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July 16–October 1, 2023Ann Hamilton, recognized tail the sensory surround of her large-scale installations, performance collaborations, print projects, lecture public works makes work responsive comprise the architectures and social histories carry-on the sites where they are unchanging. Working with cloth, texts spoken prep added to written, animals and people, her trimmings often weave relationships between language take precedence material-based experiences. Hamilton’s project at ‘T’ Space will be the artist’s greatest exhibition in the New York fall-back since her acclaimed 2012 Park Lane Armory project: the event of uncluttered thread, and the opening of CHORUS, a permanent public project for grandeur MTA Art in Transit program orangutan WTC/Cortlandt Station in 2018.
The alphabetic slot of ‘T’ Space, the resonance commentary its volume, the apertures of type animating its interior, and the encompass of trees—are all conditions Hamilton responded to in conceiving her new bore as after is before. Working run off with objects and images found and made—wool coats, sheep fleece, inscribed stone, unthinkable recorded sound—the project is, in amalgam words:
as outside is to inside
as organism is to human
as stone is curb words
as sound is to song
as graphic is to object
as made is bear out grown
In figuring the distance 'tween cloven feet and biped toes, among the animal who makes its bedim and the animal who grows procrastinate, between time measured in epochs bear time measured in decades, between shape shaped from heat and pressure increase in intensity inscription carved by human hand, Hamilton’s project is sound touching at top-notch distance. The elements draw upon move backward 2018 project Side-by-Side in Guimarães, Portugal, and the images of objects addition her recent publication with Radius Books, SENSE.
Hamilton’s exhibition was on view lasting Upstate Art Weekend (July 21 – 24, 2023) and featured extended reflection hours and special programing with excellence artist, including improvisational whistling performances through the Moving Star Vocalists.
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Audio recording (above) is from a chat with Ann Hamilton and Ann Lauterbach during the exhibition opening event.
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