David Hammons: Performing Artist in New York

About David Hammons

David Hammons is an American artist whose practice took shape in New York City and Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, often working with materials and situations drawn from everyday life. At the Whitney, *David Hammons: Day’s End* places that earlier body of work within a major New York institutional frame. Hammons’s art frequently tests where an artwork begins and ends, and who it is made to meet. His approach favors directness over spectacle, using context as an active medium.