Exhibition
Hammer Projects: Math Bass
29 Sep 2018 – 10 Feb 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
Address
- 10899 Wilshire Blvd
- Los Angeles
California - 90024
- United States
Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass creates a site-specific mural for the Hammer’s lobby wall.
About
Working across a range of media, including painting and sculpture, Math Bass employs a distinctive language of abstract, brightly colored shapes and images to explore notions of multiplicity. Her stylized forms, from bones doubling as speech bubbles to teeth resembling a set of stairs leading into a crocodile’s mouth, are rendered deliberately ambiguous and often installed to mirror each other across two and three-dimensional works. Playing with bodily and architectural scale for the Hammer Museum’s lobby wall, Bass invites the viewer to inhabit a liminal space where definition and hierarchy are playfully subverted to allow for new possibilities of experience.
Hammer Projects: Math Bass is organized by Connie Butler, chief curator, with Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant.