New York based artist, reclusive, elusive.
“When I came to New York, everybody was just groveling and tomming, anything to be In the room with somebody with some money. There were no bad guys here; So I said, “Let me be a bad guy,” or attempt to be a bad guy, or play with the bad areas and see what happens.”
“I like doing stuff better on the street, because the art becomes just one of the objects that’s in the path of your everyday existence. It’s what you move through, and it doesn’t have any seniority over anything else.”
Word.
Pissed Off, 1981
This series of photographs documents Hammons urinating on a steel sculpture by Richard Serra.
Hammons is arrested for urinating in public during this performance.
African-American flag. 1990
Rock and found hair mounted on pedestal, 15” high, 2005.
Posted on June 30, 2008 at 05:39 PM
