David hammons

David Hammons. Untitled. 1969. Pigment on board. 36 1/4 x 25 1/8" (92 x 63.8 cm). The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, the General Print Fund, and Committee on Drawings Funds. 592.2009. © 2024 David Hammons / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Drawings & Prints

David Hammons (American, b. 1943), Untitled (The Embrace), 1975. Pigment on paper, 60 3/4 x 40 3/4 in.

The Drawing Center

Untitled, David Hammons (United States, Illinois, Springfield, born 1943), United States, 1968, Drawings, Graphite and gouache.

For the past 40 years, the elusive artist David Hammons has explored race, creativity and politics – without gallery representation

American painter and performance artist

The artist’s tent city at Hauser & Wirth, in rapidly gentrifying downtown LA, is a ‘parody of pious politically activist art’

David Hammons. Untitled/Green Power. c. 1975. Pigment on paper. 14 x 17" (35.6 x 43.2 cm). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. 1814.2005. © 2024 David Hammons / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Drawings & Prints

By George Melrod David Hammons does things on his own terms. Even for an artist, he’s made a trademark of elusiveness. He doesn’t show up at his openings. Not that he has a surfeit of them: by now, any exhibition by Hammons is a significant event. But a show in Los Angeles is a once-in-45-years