COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0007267
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Work Title (display):
Capacity of Absorption
Image Title:
installation view
Work Dates (display):
1988
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Dates type:
performance
Image Date (display):
2010-07-09
Work Creator (display):
Ann Hamilton (American, born 1956)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
American installation artist, photographer and video artist. After obtaining a BFA in Textile Design at the University of Kansas in 1979, she studied sculpture at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, graduating with an MFA in 1985. Between 1985 and 1991 she taught at the University of Santa Barbara, CA, moving to Columbus, OH, in 1992. During roughly the same period she produced a series of photographs, Untitled (Body Object Series) (198493; see 1996 exh. cat., p. 14), which showed Hamilton performing various poses such as Shoemouth (1984), where she has a shoe inserted into her mouth. These are studies for the later installations, with the body becoming part of an object, a mechanism. In the installation Privation and Excesses (1989; installed San Francisco, CA, Capp Street Projects), Hamilton used most of the $750,000 grant to lay a sea of pennies on a floor of honey. The installation also included a pen of goats and a seated attendant rubbing his or her hands over a hat full of honey. After the installation the pennies were washed and paid into an account to cover the exhibition's expenses. Hamilton's interest in human actions and their legibility forms the basis for her use of text in her work. In Tropos (perf. New York, DIA Cent. A., 1993) an attendant sat burning line after line of a book, gradually and laboriously rendering it illegible. In the 1990s Hamilton began to use light projection and video more predominantly in her work in pieces such as Salic, (1995; see 1997 exh. cat., p. 19), which shows a projection of her unfurling lines of text from her mouth. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2008-02-06)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1993
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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false
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Subject:
body, human
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body, human
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Work Subject:
memory
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memory
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Work Subject:
body parts
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body parts
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
experience
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experience
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
senses
subject
senses
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
work_type
installations (visual works)
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false
Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Los Angeles, California
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
UCBAAHVRCSlideAccessionNumber
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Ann Hamilton
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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