We’re honoring Pride Month with a look at LGBTQ+ artists who use languages of craft, textile, handiw
We’re honoring Pride Month with a look at LGBTQ+ artists who use languages of craft, textile, handiwork, and assemblage to express queer themes and identities. Inspired by woven and assembled forms, this selection of artworks reminds us of how seemingly small-scale, everyday gestures can create connection, community, visibility, and change.Since the 1970s, Harmony Hammond has explored the material and visual language of bodies, gender, and lesbian identity through works such as Hunkertime. For this sculpture, Hammond wrapped nine abstract, ambiguous forms using textiles and latex rubber, adorning some with ruffled folds. With their uneven, patterned surfaces, variable shapes, and off-kilter arrangement, Hunkertime evokes bodies and community through a feminist and genderqueer idiom—a powerful departure from the sleek, austere, and masculine vocabulary of Minimalism. The sculpture and its title call to mind a community of collective support, much like the kind that Hammond helped to form at the start of her career through A.I.R. Gallery, the journal Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, and the organization of the iconic 1978 exhibition “A Lesbian Show.”Posted by Joseph ShaikewitzInstallation view of Harmony Hammond’s Hunkertime (1979-80) in Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Brooklyn Museum (Photo: Jonathan Dorado). -- source link
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