Virtual Walkthrough with Executive Director Laura Hoptman of David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979

Executive Director Laura Hoptman leads an exhibition walkthrough of David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 on view through May 23, 2021.

Featuring Hammons's pivotal early works on paper, the exhibition brings together the monoprints and collages in which the artist used the body as both a drawing tool and printing plate to explore performative, unconventional forms of image making. More than a half century after they were made, these early works on paper remain a testament to Hammons’s desire to reinterpret notions of the real; his celebration of the sacredness of objects touched or made by the Black body; his biting critique of racial oppression; and his deep commitment to social justice.

This event was recorded on March 17, 2021.