The Alchemist of Identity: The Life and Legacy of David Hammons In the vibrant, often turbulent landscape of late twentieth-century American art, few figures loom as enigmatically or as powerfully as David Hammons. Born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, as the youngest of ten children raised by a single mother, Hammons’ journey is one of profound movement—both geographical and conceptual. His migration from the Midwest to the sun-drenched, experimental art scenes of Los Angeles in the 1960s set the stage for a career defined by the reclamation of discarded materials and the interrogation of…
A chart of david hammons's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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