Art Talk
Made in L.A. 2018
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers her take on the Hammer Biennial.
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp • • 4m ListenA museum biennial, a group exhibition staged every two years, is a thankless task. The Whitney gets savaged regularly for some aspect of their long-lived biennial but they are doubly dogged by choosing artists from the around the country to show in one of the country’s first museums dedicated to American art.
Eamon Ore-Giron, Top Ranking, 2015. Flashe on linen. 66 x 56 in. (167.64 x 142.24 cm). Private collection. Courtesy the artist.
Carmen Argote, Filtration System for a process-based practice, 2018. Photo by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.
Rosha Yaghmai, Slide Samples (Lures, Myths) 2018. Photo by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Charles Long, Paradigm Lost, 2018 (detail). Photo by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1970. Oil on canvas. 30 x 50 in. (76.2 x 127 cm). Signed and dated on verso. Courtesy the artist and Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles and Brussels. Photo: Cole Root.
