Charlie Hammond
dal 25/10/2014 al 20/12/2014
Segnalato da
25/10/2014
Charlie Hammond
Lisa Cooley (new location), New York
The paintings in 'Plate Interference' depict a class of everyday objects which imply that, to the act of making a painting is analogous to the daily activity of making something dirty, and then washing up afterwards.
Lisa Cooley is pleased to present Plate Interference, an exhibition of
new paintings by Glasgow–based artist Charlie Hammond. Installed in
the west gallery, Plate Interference will appear concurrent with Josh
Faught’s Christmas Creep. A new text by Nick Evans written
specifically on the occasion of Plate Interference will accompany the
exhibition.
To Charlie Hammond, art is work. Recently, his art has taken the
notion of everyday work—cooking, cleaning, ironing, making,
sweating—as its subject. Hardly noble, Hammond’s paintings reflect
the more awkward and absurdist qualities involved with getting things
done. The paintings in Plate Interference depict a class of everyday
objects—a washing machine, an iron, a laundry hamper, a kitchen
sink, and a goose necked bottle of Toilet Duck—which imply that, to
Hammond, the act of making a painting is analogous to the daily
activity of making something dirty, and then washing up afterwards.
Made on sheets of industrial aluminum foil that have been impressed
with the shapes of dinner plates, broom handles and “interfereing
crockery,” the painted surfaces of the works included in Plate
Interference are both phycially and visually disrupted. The plates get
in the way. They literally deform and displace the image. In physics,
this notion of “plate interference” most often describes the
refraction of light from a reflective or semi-reflective surface. This
optical interference can be destructive, producing distortions by
taking similar waves out of phase; but it can also be constructive, an
act of bringing unlike waves into phase with each other. In this
latter sense, Hammond’s theory of plate interference acts as a
metaphor for painting, a reflexive acknowledgement of the age old
problem of finding ways to represent a three dimensional object on a
two-dimensional surface.
Charlie Hammond lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. He holds a
painting degree from the Glasgow School of Art. His work has been
exhibited extensively throughout Europe, with solo exhibitions at
Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Linn Lühn (with Michael
Bauer), Cologne, and group shows at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow,
the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and at the 2007 Prague Biennial.
Hammond’s work has also been widely exhibited in the United States,
with solo-exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, and Michael
Benevento, Los Angeles. In 2014, Hammond worked as
artist–in–residence at the CPH AIR in Copenhagen. Plate
Interference is Hammond’s first exhibition at Lisa Cooley.
Image:Charlie Hammond, Untitled (Grey hi Vis), 2014,Acrylic on aluminum foil,110 x 152 x 7 cm
Press: Myranda Gillies at myranda@lisa-cooley.com.
Opening 26 october 6-8pm
Lisa Cooley Gallery
107 Norfolk StreetNew York, New York 10002
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