Bandaged Grid Paintings

Harmony Hammond’s Bandaged Grid series (2015–present) develops out of the artist’s near monochrome paintings, combining an earth-based palette with an expanded vocabulary of found fabrics. Many of these large-scaled works feature fraying patches of fabric layered in horizontal rows over grids of grommeted holes. For Hammond, this approach evokes the bandaging of a body. As she notes, “a bandage always implies a wound. A bandaged grid implies an interruption of the narrative of the modernist grid and therefore, an interruption of utopian egalitarian order … a precarity. But also, however fragile, the possibility of holding together, of healing.”