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DAVID HAMMONS (1943 - ) Untitled.
Photolithograph, 1992. 630x440 mm; 24 3/4x17 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 34/45 in pencil, lower right. Published by Editions Schellmann, München, for Documenta IX. A very good impression.
Born in Springfield, Illinois, David Hammons is a visual and conceptual artist who uses assemblage, sculpture and installation to address issues of African-American identity and culture. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, and at the Parsons School of Design, New York. Hammons makes many of his artworks from found objects and debris to confront cultural stereotypes and racial issues; examples include pyramids of human hair collected from the floors of Harlem barbershops, snowballs that he sells on the sidewalk and drawings made from Harlem dirt bounced off a basketball onto paper. His work is often installed on city streets and in vacant lots rather than in art galleries. Hammons is perhaps best known for the African American flag that hangs outside the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Musuem of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
