Artist a Day: David Hammons

 

 

 

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David Hammons, Untitled (Basketball Drawing with Bricks), 2005, SFMOMA

 

It’s NBA All-Star Weekend here in L.A. (cue my extended eye roll)

 

Much like my Superbowl post, this is as close to basketball as I want to get. Here are two examples of Hammons’ basketball drawings created from a charcoal covered basketball that’s repeatedly bounced on a sheet of clean white paper. These works, in addition to his jeweled basketball hoops, are subtly wry commentaries on the institution of sport, celebrity, and access.

 

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David Hammons, detail of a Basketball Drawing. 

 

With Hammons, less is more, so I’m just going to leave this right here: those that use their platform constructively should never be silenced.

 

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