This summer, add art to your U.S. travel itineraries with these exhibitions on medieval monsters, playful design, and the history of camp in fashion. Stop by the Newseum in Washington, D.C., before it closes at the end of the year, explore solo shows featuring an influential feminist artist and a vernacular environment builder, and see group exhibitions for contemporary Chinese art and Native women artists.
Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art
March 3—September 15, 2019; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
In this show on artist, lesbian scholar, and feminist activist Harmony Hammond, visitors can experience five decades of her works in a huge variety of media. Her early 1970s installations transformed fabric discarded by female friends into colossal robe-like pieces; the 1989 “Chicken Lady” turned a vintage quilt and rusted roof tin into a statement on female outsiders. Throughout, materials such as burlap, pine needles, bone, hair, blood, charred wood, and linoleum are augmented with paint, bronze, and graphite to elevate women’s craft traditions into reflections of the female body and its strength.
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