After moving to New Mexico in the mid-1980s, Harmony Hammond’s practice began to evolve as she started to experiment with painting. “Moving to New Mexico allowed me to work in the studio every day, and I could push my paint surface, imagery, and scale,” Hammond recalled in a 1992 interview. “While I had been making mostly sculpture for years, the problematics of painting began to engage me more and more.” Approaching paint as a sculptural material—akin to latex rubber, human hair, straw, or corrugated tin—Hammond began to create mixed-media works from disparate materials.
