Forecast: Art in 2009 Jan 4, 2009
A sampling of contemporary artists' responses to collisions of nature and culture, including new works commissioned from Ann Hamilton, Diana Thater, Xu Bing and others. Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object (April) Oakland Museum of California. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
* Found objects win artist US$250,000 prize Sep 10, 2008
Ann Hamiltons wildly creative installations often use items culled from flea markets and warehouses ... Ann Hamilton, a visual artist known for her eye-popping installations including paper-sucking machines and a weeping wall, is among the winners of the Heinz Family Foundations Human Achievement Awards. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Malaria researcher among Heinz Award winners Sep 9, 2008
PITTSBURGH A molecular biologist who is searching for a cure for malaria is among five people being named Heinz Award winners on Tuesday. Joseph DeRisi invented the ViroChip, a small glass wafer containing some 22,000 DNA sequences from more than 1,300 viral families. (Kansas City Star)
For the conventions, a gentle blend of art and politics Aug 19, 2008
Another project, "Circles of O," by Ann Hamilton, is based on lullabies and the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and will be performed by local choirs that will pass the piece on like a musical baton. 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Go on, get out! Jul 31, 2008
More concrete news: Macy's former partner Mark Jensen, who is currently finishing construction on Jensen s award-winning design of a rooftop sculpture garden for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has recently completed another Jensen project: a complex concrete 24-foot-diameter tower in collaboration with San Francisco photographer and artist Ann Hamilton for SFMOMA trustee Steve Oliver's sculpture ranch in Geyserville. Hamilton's tall windowless tower has a double-helix spiral staircase... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jewish museum sees light after years of delays Jun 9, 2008
The museum commissioned new works from Matthew Ritchie, Ann Hamilton and other artists for one of its inaugural exhibitions, "In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis." The show also includes works about the creation story by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, William Blake, Barnett Newman and others spanning about 600 years. Upstairs in the Yud gallery - a spirit-lifting space with a 65-foot ceiling and light streaming through 36 diamond-shaped windows - new music and stories by an eclectic range... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cochise College graduates May 17, 2008
Associate of Applied Science: Donald Lee Allgood III, Edgardo Altamirano, Robert Jeffery Altizer *, Jacob Miles Anderson, Mysty Dawn Applegate *, Xavier M. Argueta, Art L. Barcelo **, Arthur G Barker *, Edesha V. Basa *, Reynard Bibbins *, Jonathan Christopher Bierer **, Geoffrey David Bischoff *, Frederick Edward Bissonnette III *, Steven Ross Bitticks **, Dean William Blachly **, Evaristo Antonio Bonilla **, Dwight Dee Bonner Sr. **, Steven R. Boyce **, Christopher Joseph Bradley, Scott Allen... (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Art Review: The Information Age Jan 18, 2008
Think of Chris Burden building warring cities out of thousands of toys and Ann Hamilton creating a room featuring walls lined with hundreds of small panes of specimen glass. Surely someone, sometime, looked at a big pile of old books and thought of constructing a monumental sculpture from them. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
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The honorees include the distinguished visual artist Ann Hamilton and theater director Robert Woodruff, whose acclaimed bodies of work stretch over decades. Others, like jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre, and visual artist Edgar Arceneaux are newer talents of early achievement and great promise. (PNN Online)
Painting gets a broader brush in L.A. Dec 4, 2007
Rarely do production assistants, teams of fabricators and collaborators gather in a painter's studio, as they do for movies at Paramount, TV shows at HBO and at the far-flung art factories established by video artist Bill Viola, sculptor Jeff Koons or installation artist Ann Hamilton. Usually it's just one person in a room, with a flat plane and some colors, trying to juice the corpse and make it dance. (Los Angeles Times)
Artwork by disabled reaches wider audience Oct 10, 2007
"Judith Scott prominently displayed alongside [Mark] Rothko and Ann Hamilton is a sign of change," she said. "Before the last few years, these artists would be shown together. Only recently do we see disabled and non-disabled artists showing in the same shows.". (Boston Globe)
AGO bags star Canadian work in Biennale Aug 19, 2007
"You have international artists like Ann Hamilton, Robert Gober and Kiki Smith" he says, citing artists now in solid mid-career, "but then there is the younger generation like Sarah Sze and [the late] Jason Rhoades." Altmejd, he says, is a master of the medium, able to create a totality in which every detail contributes in a way that is clearly consistent thematically. Donors Hartman and Goldman have never seen The Index, though they own an earlier small work by Altmejd, which they bought at the... (Globe and Mail)
MCASD receives multiple grants Apr 29, 2007
The show will include new work by internationally known artists Ann Hamilton, I;igo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramirez (ERRE), Xu Bing and Mark Dion many in response to natural and cultural World Heritage sites around the world. The show is scheduled to open at the MCASD in the fall of 2008. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Puget Sound Garden Mar 25, 2007
A floor piece by Ann Hamilton, who has carved out the first lines from books in 11 languages, with the letters backward, as they would be on a printing press. Both pieces are paradigms of art that is relevant to the setting and its purpose. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
MCASD; A landmark arrival Jan 15, 2007
Hugh Davies, who became director in 1983, made it a point to invite artists who work environmentally, like Ann Hamilton and Mark Dion, to create works on site during short residencies, often adding them to the collection. But it's clear the museum is entering a new phase, in which artists have the space to create works on location, on a scale they couldn't before. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
