... Whether it is taking snow from Harlem’s streets to make and sell snowballs, or hair from the floors of barbershops, or chicken wings and ribs, or bottles pitched into empty lots to create sculptures, or dirtying up a basketball and throwing it at white walls, David Hammons gives a sense of visual order to these ordinary, often coarse objects of urban life and black culture.
Hammons’ is fifty-nine years old and has been defying an art world willing to make him a star. ... Identity issues are hardly ever missing from Hammons work, but the fundamentals of his work, and the objects and mediums with which he works are different from those of other contemporary black installation artists. ... Art critics and viewers often question if David Hammons is being pessimistic or playful because his work wobbles between pleasant alteration of material and immoral imitation.
David Hammons art rouses his audiences to express intense reactions. ... Hammons is infamous for trapping people into hating him. ... Hammons’ unusual way of making art is by rearranging the order of recognizable objects, by pairing things with a common meaning, or by changing the rhythm or chronological sequence.
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