DAVID HAMMONS

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DAVID HAMMONS

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David Hammons once commented that “outrageously magical things happen when you mess around with a symbol." For the past 50 years, Hammons has created a vocabulary of symbols from everyday life and messed around with them in the form of prints, drawings, performances, video, found-object sculptures, and paintings. Many of the results have indeed been outrageous, and most all of them have had a distinct kind of magic, derived from the transformation of everyday objects into allegories of the experience of the outsider in the contemporary world, whether an artist, a stranger, a madman, or, most persistently, a person of colour.

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Hammons, David

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Hammons, David, “DAVID HAMMONS,” Index of Contemporary Artists, accessed May 17, 2024, https://craigleonard.omeka.net/items/show/718.