ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) Brecencia and Pheasant.
Archival pigment print, in the artist's frame, 2015-16. 508x838 mm; 20x30 inches (oval). Signed, titled and inscribed "2015/2016 print" and numbered 1/4 in pencil, verso. From the series Sweet Milk in the Badlands.
Provenance: gift of the artist; acquired at Rush Philanthropic Art Foundation Benefit Auction, New Yor; private collection (2018).
Allison Janae Hamilton works in photography, installation, video, sculpture and taxidermy. Within these diverse media, Hamilton's develops themes from the literary ideas of magical realism, Southern Gothic, and the carnivalesque. According to the artist's webstite statement, her series ,Sweet milk in the badlands "looks toward ritual, storytelling, and trance in search of the connections between landscape and selfhood, place and disturbance. It invites an uncanny cast of haints to lead the viewer through the beginnings of an epic tale that animates the land as a guide and witness."
Hamilton was a 2018-19 artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and her work has been exhibited widely nationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, Storm King Art Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PS1, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Jewish Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Pitch at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams and Passage at Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, both in 2018.
