Bone Cut, 2017
TRT: 9:41 minutes
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Frederick Hammersley "Paintings and Works on Paper" @ LA Louver
Over the past five or six years, I have become completely enamored with Hammersley's work. Through the course of three exhibitions at LA Louver in 2013, 2014, and this one from 2017, I have seen a large segment of his oeuvre. Very little disappoints with its interests between organic/geometric abstraction formally, consistent inconsistencies (or is it inconsistent consistencies), and so on. The point is that through an art practice, comprised primarily of painting, and drawing, Hammersley has managed to dissect and draw attention to irreconcible yet irrevocably connected issues surrounding concepts of sequence and form, some revelation of thought itself, I presume.
In the spirit of cutting up, I have rearranged the sequence of my viewing and the viewing sequence of the gallery show itself to be sure. For the most part, I often share my images in the same sequence that I view the show, as if there were some kind of authenticity at stake about such ordering. Sometimes, rigid structures must give way to softer, more malleable things, and, this, I believe, is where my interest in Hammersely connects. Note, also, that there is missing information. As I learn more about certain works, I will update. Would be great to have the information complete. Alas, like the reordering/cutting-up, things may never quite be ideal. More than anything, is my hope that these images will reveal the value of chronology and its alternative synchronic approach. Perhaps, it can be said that form is out of order.
Family Tree #2, 1991
oil on 7-ply oak in artist-made-frame
panel: 8 3/8 x 11 1/2 in.
frame: 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
Hot & heavy, #5, 1990
oil on cotton on birch in artist-made frame
panel: 9 x 11 in. (22.9 x 27.9 cm)
frame: 14 x 16 in. (35.6 x 40.6 cm
Money from home, #8, 1986
oil on rag paper on linen on wood in artist-made frame
panel: 7 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (19.7 x 25.7 cm)
frame: 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (27.3 x 34.9 cm)
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Cross reference, #10, 1980
oil on linen
45 x 45 in. (114.3 x 114.3 cm)
Altered Ego, #4, 1971
oil on linen
44 x 44 in. (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
Poles a part, #8, 1980
oil on linen
45 x 45 in. (114.3 x 114.3 cm)
Pre prayed, #1, 1981
oil on linen
45 x 45 in. (114.3 x 114.3 cm)
Pact, #4, 1978
oil on linen
45 x 45 in. (114.3 x 114.3 cm)
Dark & like #23, 1977
oil on linen
38 x 38 in.
square off, 1973
lithograph
image: 18 x 18 in. (45.7 x 45.7 cm)
paper: 22 x 22 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Altered Ego, #4, 1971
oil on linen
44 x 44 in. (111.8 x 111.8 cm)
CAPITOL .1, 28 APR 69
computer drawing / print on paper
11 x 14 3/4 in (27.9 x 37.5)
GEE WHIZ, 1969
computer-generated drawing on paper
paper: 11 x 15 in. (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Family #1, 1973
lithograph
image: 16 3/4 x 10 3/4
paper: 22 1/8 x 16 3/4
Missing information
Cut up, #30c, 1964
oil on chipboard panel in artist-made frame
panel: 16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
frame: 21 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (54 x 54 cm)
Before + after, #2, 1964
oil on chipboard panel in artist-made frame
panel: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
frame: 26 x 30 in. (66 x 76.2 cm)
By itself, #22, 1962
oil on chipboard panel in artist-made frame
panel: 14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm)
framed: 22 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (56.5 x 64.1 cm) /
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Four, 1954
oil on linen in artist-made frame
canvas: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
frame: 21 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.
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no title, 1951
watercolor on paper
6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (17.1 x 24.8 cm)
sticks and stones, 1950
colored pencil on paper in artist-made frame
image: 4 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.
frame: 11 x 12
Green experiment, 1950
relief in artist-made frame
panel: 7 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
frame: 9 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (23.5 x 23.5 cm)
Steps from Sacre Coeur Paris, 1944
black and white photograph in artist-made-frame
image: 4 1/2 x 7 in.
frame: 9 x 11 1/4 in.
Tafts 1 & 2, 1950
lithograph in artist-made frame
image: 3 x 3 in. (7.6 x 7.6 cm)
frame: 8 x 8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Silver lining, 1950
lithograph in artist-made frame
image: 3 x 3 in. (7.6 x 7.6 cm)
frame: 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (21 x 21 cm)
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Self portrait & canvas, 1950
oil on cotton in artist-made frame
panel: 19 x 15 in. (48.3 x 38.1 cm)
frame: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
still life - wood, 1948
lithograph
image: 10 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (27.6 x 19.1 cm)
paper: 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm)
new rules, 1951
crayon on paper
3 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Missing information
Berlin Street 1945, 1945
black and white photograph in artist-made frame
image: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (16.5 x 11.4 cm)
frame: 11 1/2 x 9 in. (29.2 x 22.9 cm)
First still life (Ft Hall, ID), 1937
oil on upson board in artist-made frame
panel: 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
frame: 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (49.5 x 39.4 cm)
Dark & like #23, 1977
oil on linen
38 x 38 in.
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inward (no comment), 1975
ink and pencil on paper
7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
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