Spirituality: Ann Hamilton. (GalleryCard).Ann Hamilton Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also known to work with video and video installation. , Lineament lin·e·a·ment n. 1. A distinctive shape, contour, or line, especially of the face. 2. A definitive or characteristic feature. , 1994. Plywood walls, suspended seat and table, film projector light, seated figure lifting and winding cut text in continuous line from a prepared book. Courtesy Sean Kelly Sean Kelly is the name of:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Photo by Robert Wedemeyer. About the Art This installation took place in a room with a high ceiling completely covered with plywood sheeting. A rectangular plywood table was suspended on wires from the ceiling, and a plywood seat was suspended near one end. The artist or one of her attendants sat there, partially concealed behind a small curtain mounted on the table, pulling long strips of previously cut pages from the text block of an opened book and rolling them into paper spheres. Once these balls reached a size that felt comfortable in the artist's hand, they were pushed through the curtain to the middle of the table. By the time the installation was closed, 33 spheres rested on the table, each formed by the unraveling of a different text. About the Artist Installation artist Ann Hamilton was born in Lima, Ohio. She grew up in a supportive family with a strong Mid-western work ethic. After completing an MFA See multifactor authentication. at Yale in 1985, she took a full-time teaching position at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). in Santa Barbara. She began altering books as part of her installations in 1991. Driven by an old-fashioned sense of industry, Hamilton's installations involve considerable planning and are very labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars . A recent recipient of the prestigious and valuable MacArthur Award, she no longer has to rely on grants and commissions to support her art. Married to a fellow artist, she now has a home in Columbus, Ohio. Things to Consider Compare the recent installations of Ann Hamilton with earlier works by Joseph Beuys. In what ways might Hamilton have been influenced by Beuys? What do her works have in common with the environments, performances, and happenings of the 1960s and 70s? In the process of making her art, Ann Hamilton has carefully and purposefully transformed a huge collection of books by erasing, slicing, singeing singeing flash application of flame to remove residual, esthetically unattractive hairs from poultry and pig carcasses. , and other forms of alterations. Consider how and why deconstructing a book in an art gallery can be viewed quite differently from defacing books in the library. GalleryCard submitted by Art:21, Inc. as a resource for the television series, "Art for the 21st Century. For the free full-color teacher's guide to this series, e-mail your request for Art:21 guide to zips@zipnsort.com. |
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