Harmony Hammond: Desire

Harmony Hammond: Desire
On view: October 16, 2025–January 23, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, October 16, 5:00-7:00 pm
Artist and curator talk: Thursday, October 23, 5:30 pm

Tamarind is honored to present a significant new collection of lithographs by American artist and 2024 Frederick Hammersley Artist Residency recipient Harmony Hammond. This body of work, featuring monoprints and editioned pieces with layered and frayed edges, pierced surfaces, and hand-drawn text on PVA-coated paper, exemplifies Hammond’s lifelong exploration of materiality and process.

Hammond, a pivotal and groundbreaking figure in the feminist art and queer abstraction movements, and co-founder of A.I.R. Gallery and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, returned to Tamarind in 2024 for her third collaboration (she first collaborated with the institute in 1978, and again in 1988). During this latest several-week residency, Hammond investigated the lithograph as a non-planographic object. Art historian and critic Faye Hirsch observes, “The result is a group of prints that, in lush defiance, both offer a continuance of the Tamarind mission and remain faithful to the trajectory of all Hammond’s artistic endeavors.”

Sculptural, dimensional and tactile, these works not only signify a milestone in Hammond’s broader practice of engaging material and embracing experimentation, but also underscore Tamarind’s commitment to fostering innovative printmaking practices that deepen and expand our understanding of the medium. “While Hammond has a long history with printmaking, particularly monotype,” writes Tamarind Director Diana Gaston, “this collaboration brought a fresh approach to the medium of lithography, expanding its language through the implementation of synthetic materials, frayed edges, punctures, and constructed dimensionality.”