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BIOGRAPHY - Hammond (Born 1976)

 Hammond

Hammond (b.1976) grew up in the historic Hudson Valley of New York. His earliest influences included Jim Davis and Charles Schultz, as well as characters created by DC and Marvel Comics. His interest in art was further fueled by the strong museum and arts background of his parents.

In the late 90s, he studied the business and presentation side of the fine art world while working for Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ (which closed around 2005). In doing so, he was exposed to world-renowned artists such as Dale Chihuly, Françoise Gilot, Fritz Scholder, Hunt Slonem, Janet Fish and Paul Jenkins. He had his first solo exhibit in 2000 and earned his B.A. in Art from Arizona State University in 2006.


While trained in representational art, Hammond began working from the subconscious, and in 2011 he shifted to an abstract expressionistic style. The initial outcome was his first abstract series, UNTITLED.

In 2012 he moved to Cincinnati, OH. He then partnered with Artworks Cincinnati on multiple projects, and in 2014 he founded the Cincinnati Abstract Art Group. Additionally, in 2016 he received two purchase awards through the Ohio Percent for Art program and was also selected for the Ohio Governor’s Office and Residence Loan Program. Hammond has had solo exhibitions in AZ, NY, OH and WI. His works are in several public and private collections nationally. 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I think of my art as a documentation of my life experiences and thoughts. My work is frequently autobiographical in one form or another. The challenge that comes with trying to work from the subconscious and the process of creating the art are where I benefit most as an individual and a artist. When I am working I feel grounded, more spiritual and connected to a primordial energy. The style is abstract expressionistic despite it's distant familiarity to other works of art under the same umbrella.

As an artist I believe it is one of my responsibilities to use my talents as a tool to communicate my opinions, ideas and concerns. It is important to me that my work begs to ask the question, "what is the artist trying to say here?"  Everything from politics to religion, environmental concerns to love, are all topics that I freely explore.

The connection to the piece, and the experience of making it, becomes the underlying fuel to do more. When I start one of these pieces, I am in a certain mood. That often dictates the "flavor" of the piece. Sometimes it may look like a figure, or a landscape, or just patterns. Sometimes I see one thing in the beginning and something completely different appears by the time I have finished. I never know where the piece will take me until the journey is complete. Titles are an important aspect to my work. They alone record and dictate if I try to control what is seen through suggestion or allow a piece to be open to interpretation.

Equally rewarding as the process of creating the artwork, is observing people while they contemplate what they see. Making someone smile, feel calm, or ask questions, are all examples of creating connections and memory imprinting. It is communication between people in one of the oldest human forms.  If I am able to continue to make people think or cause an emotional reaction with my art then I will feel as though I have succeeded in this life.

Ultimately my artwork has two self serving purposes. It becomes a conduit to the unexplainable, allowing me to feel deeply and then to let go. In addition it is a tool that enables me as a human being, to have an aspect of control in my life when there seems to be an ever increasing chaos that surrounds us.

There are two paths you can take as an artist. You can try to recreate something familiar and seen from the natural world around us. This has been the tradition for the majority of artists since the inception of art. Only in this last century do we have evidence of artists taking the other path; attempting to create something brand new and unseen to anyone in the history of humankind. This has been the path that I have found, and have chosen to continue.

CURRENT SERIES:

My current series emerged from the fact that I had two weeks with a portion of settlement funds to make my move somewhere else and found a warehouse. The first space I had was an old vault with no windows. It was winter, as cold inside as out and the fuses blew all the time. I was in that space for two months before I moved up to the penthouse. The second studio move aggravated my back again for the entire month of February, if not longer.

I wanted to keep working but I could not be as controlled as I had been in the past with works like Cat Fight. I often do the line work with the canvas down on the ground almost like I’m working on a drawing. My body couldn't handle it. That and as luck would have it, I wanted to start working larger again and my then girlfriend and fellow artist told me I should finish something already started before starting something new. That aggravated me, and this new body of work was born with the piece titled Uninhibited. It was loose, so I could keep working. It was more fun. and by about the third painting I noticed how much of the graffiti around me was starting to influence my mark making.

This began what I've been referring to as my Rocky I time period. It’s a rough neighborhood and life has gotten rough for both me and the world as through my eyes.  I was brought up in an upper middle class, well-educated town along the Hudson River. Irvington. I began to see signs in about 2010 that I would probably be the first generation that would experience downward mobility. Seven years later for a variety of reasons I am now experiencing it. That is what has brought me to the current body of work.

AVAILABLE WORKS
No Construction Before 8 A.M. -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
No Construction Before 8 A.M.
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Signed
War -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
War
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Signed
Squirrels in the Attic I -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Squirrels in the Attic I
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
Signed
Squirrels in the Attic II -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Squirrels in the Attic II
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
Signed
Squirrels in the Attic III -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Squirrels in the Attic III
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
Signed
Squirrels in the Attic IV -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Squirrels in the Attic IV
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
Signed
Blue FU -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue FU
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2014
Blue Man Rising -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue Man Rising
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2014
Blue Wave -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue Wave
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Signed
Blue Point -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue Point
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Signed
Blue Note -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue Note
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2023
Untitled No. 37 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled No. 37
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Untitled No. 22 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled No. 22
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Untitled No. 13 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled No. 13
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Taken -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Taken
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2013
Untitled No. 9 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled No. 9
Pastel on paper
18 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2011
Red-Fu -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Red-Fu
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2016
Era of Corruption -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Era of Corruption
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2016
Untitled 17 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled 17
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Untitled 36 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled 36
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Untitled -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled
Pastel on paper
18 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Untitled #27 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled #27
Pastel on paper
18 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Untitled No. 30 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled No. 30
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Ketchup -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Ketchup
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Signed
Up and Down -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Up and Down
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Signed
Signature Series: Lover -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Signature Series: Lover
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Signed
Signature Series: Friend -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Signature Series: Friend
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Signed
Signature Series: Colleague -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Signature Series: Colleague
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Signed
Kachinas Dancing, 2015 -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Kachinas Dancing, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 54 inches
Signed and dated
From 2020 With Love -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
From 2020 With Love
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed
Analog Dreams -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Analog Dreams
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 48 inches
Signed and dated
Fluffy Bunnies -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Fluffy Bunnies
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed
Oooh Yeah -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Oooh Yeah
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
Signed
Starved -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Starved
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Signed and dated
Toxic -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Toxic
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 48 inches
Signed
Sold Works
Empty My Head -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Empty My Head
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2016
Comedy of Life -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Comedy of Life
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2013
Untitled -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Untitled
Pastel on paper
18 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2017
The Opium Smoker -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
The Opium Smoker
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2012
Blue Song -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue Song
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2014
Dancing with Anna -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Dancing with Anna
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2016
Blue Seduction -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue Seduction
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2014
Uninhibited -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Uninhibited
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Where Was I? -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Where Was I?
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Signed
Blue Pair -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Blue Pair
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Signed
Fat Man and the Woman with the Big Hat -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Fat Man and the Woman with the Big Hat
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Signed
Angels and Demons  -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Angels and Demons
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Jambalaya -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Jambalaya
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Take Five -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Take Five
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Well, Chute -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Well, Chute
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Signed
White Noise -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
White Noise
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Signed
SkyNet is Real -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
SkyNet is Real
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Signed
Solo -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Solo
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Signed
Hot Air -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Hot Air
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Three Ring Circus -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Three Ring Circus
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Deep Blue -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Deep Blue
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Dirty Laundry -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Dirty Laundry
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Comm-Odity -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Comm-Odity
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Carnival Games -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Carnival Games
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Exhibited Works
1983 (ditpych) -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
1983 (ditpych)
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 80 inches
Signed
Frozen -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Frozen
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 48 inches
Signed
Hook, Line, and Sinker -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Hook, Line, and Sinker
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 48 inches
Signed and dated 2016
Beyond the Obvious -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Beyond the Obvious
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Court Jester -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Court Jester
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2015
Dis Function All -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Dis Function All
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Death of a Dream -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Death of a Dream
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Signed
Five Forward -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Five Forward
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed
Five Backward -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Five Backward
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed
Front -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Front
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Life of Grime -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Life of Grime
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 60 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Red Scare -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Red Scare
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 80 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Id -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Id
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Imprint -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Imprint
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Lasso my Asso -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Lasso my Asso
Acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Let the Current Take Me if the Blue Grass Won\'t -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Let the Current Take Me if the Blue Grass Won't
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Signed and dated 2018
Media Monster -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Media Monster
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Scream and Shout (Diptych) -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Scream and Shout (Diptych)
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 120 inches
Signed and dated 2016
Palace of the Golden Dong -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Palace of the Golden Dong
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 12 inches
Signed and dated 2018
Uninhibited  -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Uninhibited
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed and dated 2017
Tipping Point -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
Tipping Point
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Signed
The Fall Guy -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
The Fall Guy
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Signed and dated 2017
The Cat\'s Meow -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
The Cat's Meow
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Signed
See Sin See -  Hammond
Hammond
(Born 1976)
See Sin See
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Signed