Ann Hamilton*

Lot #30
A Page For Headlands, 2021
Unique cloth and word collage on book endpaper
8.5 x 5.75 inches
Courtesy of Ann Hamilton Studio

About the Artwork

Ann Hamilton (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘90) is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring forms—cloth, texts spoken and written, animals, and people suspended or in motion—immerse viewers in an atmosphere both visceral and literary, individual and collective, animate and inanimate, silent and spoken. A Page For Headlands comes from an ongoing studio series pairing found cloth and found text. In Hamilton’s words, “These collages give form to, in an intimate scale, my ongoing preoccupation and interest in the relationship between text and textile as ways of knowing the world.” Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, Heinz Award, MacArthur Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 1989, Hamilton lived on Headlands’ campus for a year and was commissioned to renovate and animate the Mess Hall in Building 944.

Retail Value: $6,000