Max Hammond"XOXO"2021
2021
About the Item
- Creator:Max Hammond (American)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Scottsdale, AZ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU18428323472
Max Hammond
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the Great Salt Lake, he was struck by the inescapable solitude of the vast stretches of this area, from the absolute flatness of the salt flats to the surreal quality of the marshes. It was this desolate landscape he began to paint in college.
Earning a BFA at the University of Utah, Hammond was formally trained, emphasizing classical figure drawing in addition to his love for landscapes. After winning a trip to Mexico for six weeks, this rural boy was struck by the way the Mexicans used undiluted colors to bring life to what appeared to be stark living conditions. It was at this point that color began to take on a new life in his paintings.
Hammond left Utah to begin a M.F.A. in painting at Arizona State University where he won the prestigious Nathan Cummings Travel Award throughout Latin America, where he was again saturated in a world of color and ancient abstraction. Following his thesis show, he was invited to join the Elaine Horwitch Galleries where he met with instant success.
Hammond’s work is widely collected, and appears in the permanent collections of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Finova Corp., the City of Scottsdale, and the City of Mesa among others. He has had solo shows nearly every year for the past 25 years. His current work occasionally returns to the figures he originally painted where he weaves in and out of abstraction, sometimes almost recognizable, then blurring to pure color, form and texture.
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(Biography provided by Bonner David Galleries)
- "Tying a Knot"By Max HammondLocated in Scottsdale, AZFrom the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- "Climbing a Hill"By Max HammondLocated in Scottsdale, AZFrom the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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- "Flying Somewhere"By Max HammondLocated in Scottsdale, AZFrom the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- "Mise En Scene"By Max HammondLocated in Scottsdale, AZFrom the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- "Fernweh"By Max HammondLocated in Scottsdale, AZFrom the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- "Terraqueous"By Max HammondLocated in Scottsdale, AZFrom the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
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