Jacqueline Francis and Tina Takemoto's essay (2017) on contemporary artist David Hammons

Posted by Jacqueline Francis on Friday, January 20, 2017

David Hammons (born 1943, Springfield, Illinois) is one of the most innovative artists of our times.  Hammons studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now known as California Institute of the Arts, or CalArts), and is a radically experimental printmaker who trained with master draftsman and printmaker Charles White at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in the 1960s.

Hammons is a conceptual artist, known for his engaging projects that satirize the modern art market and its commodification of the created art object.  In 2004, he was invited by curators Cheryl Finely and Salah Hassan to make art in Dakar, Senegal.  Hammons' project, Dak'Art 2004 Sheep Raffle, is the subject of the essay, co-authored by me and artist-writer Tina Takemoto: it is published on the website of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.  Takemoto and I are part of a Wattis research group, and David Hammons has been on our minds over the last year.

 Photo by Salah Hassan, documenting the staging of David Hammons' conceptual art project Dak'Art 2004 Sheep Raffle, published in Flash Art 308 (May 2016), online.

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