Harmony Hammond: Abstraction after Modernism RedLine Gallery is exhibiting the show Choice C: Harmony Hammond: Abstraction after Modernism RedLine Gallery is exhibiting the show Harmony Hammond: Becoming/Unbecoming Monochrome until Sunday, September 28th. Hammond emerged as part of a generation of abstract artists who rejected the Modernist orthodoxies of Abstract Expressionism and Clement Greenberg in the 1960s and ˜70s, seeking to re-energize abstraction with references to the body, architecture, craft, and even politics. As the RedLine show demonstrates, it is a quest that is ongoing for Hammond, juxtaposing her paintings from the 1970s with very recent works from her studio. After seeing the exhibition and mulling over the similarities and differences between Hammond’s work from the past and present, write an 8-10-page paper (5000-level students, 10-14 pages), that addresses the following: ï‚· A brief description of the exhibition as a whole and a brief biography of the artist. ï‚· Referencing your research on the artist’s work, history, and evolution, select four works from the show (two from the 20th century, two from the 21st century) that summarize some pertinent ways Hammond’s varied approaches to abstraction are visible in the different work on display in Becoming/Unbecoming Monochrome. How does the work speak to Modernist ideals of intense materiality, even as it breaks from Modernist goals of a œself-referential, œpure abstract art by referencing subjects and stories from real life? ï‚· How does the work in the show”separated by different decades, and different approaches”compare and contrast? What aspects consistently return in the works? And, what aspects change, evolve, or are rejected? How, in other words, do the works emphasize an artist still œin progress?