Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale installations. Her multi-media environments are a collaboration between the architectural site of her installation, sound, our experience in space, and the inventiveness of the viewer/interlocutor.  Her work invites viewers to imagine the histories and stories inherent in a location.  Storytelling is embedded in the objects and the spaces she uses, as well as a result of the cumulative effect of her installations.  Using time as process and material, her methods of making serve as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities past and of labor present.  Often using sound, found objects, and the spoken and written word, as well as photography and video, her objects and environments invite the audience to embark on sensory and metaphorical explorations of time, language and memory.

She has described her work process as a “conversation.”  She begins with a particular site, and engages in animated discussion with its’ constituent communities, all the while researching its socioeconomic, historical, cultural and commercial contexts.  Language is often key to her choice of elements in her installations and to her overall process. 

Hamilton is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Her major commissions include projects for The Guggenheim Museum, New York, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, and La Maison Rouge Foundation de Antoine Galbert, Paris, France.

Ann Hamilton will speak about her artistic process and the stories that her artwork tells. Hamilton is visiting Goucher as a part of the Center for Art & Media 2017 Unobskey Visiting Artist Series.

This event is open to the public, but tickets are required for all attendees. Reservations must be made in advance by logging on to www.goucher.edu/tickets or by calling 410-337-6333.