Charlie Hammond
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Untitled, 2008
Born: 1979, Aylesbury
Based: Glasgow
Represented by: Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Hammond was born in Aylesbury in 1979, and graduated from the painting department at Glasgow School of Art in 2002. Recent exhibitions include group shows at Broadway 1602, New York, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, and Michael Benevento / Orange Group, LA. In 2007 he had solo shows at Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow and Anton Kern Gallery, New York, and was selected for ‘Expanded Painting 2’ at the 3rd Prague Biennale. Forthcoming projects include a solo show at Michael Benevento, LA, in November 2008. Hammond is based in Glasgow.
Hammond’s work is arch and knowing but never contrived. In scenes bestowed with allusive, Campbellesque titles, Hammond’s figures defy their author and take on a life of their own. Some recent works have seen these subjects proudly displaying themselves as high art, while other hide behind bushes, masked or under layers of jesmonite. In all Hammond’s work the paradoxical territories of sophisticated naivety and ‘chance domesticated’ are traversed, alternately controlling and relinquishing a grasp on authorial hierarchies. With tongue in cheek and a steady hand, Hammond walks the line between Romantic immersion and canny sagacity in his piquant, heady confections.
