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It's About time (rectangular shrub)
This ceramic and acrylic painting doubles as a form of self-portraiture. The composition is both familiar and surreal, and includes references to the landscape of the artist's native Midwest and personal objects from the artist's childhood. This work is an auto-fictitious diary where real-life events merge with fictional narratives. In this space of total authorship, beloved family heirlooms and hometown monuments—such as the world’s largest tiger muskie—have just as much relevance as imagined encounters and fabricated landscapes.
Throughout Hamilton's work, the illusion of depth versus the concrete tangibility of ceramic is a conceptual thread. In the artist's sparse and sometimes physically impossible scenes—where the interplay of the differently-rendered dimensions give rise to metaphorical associations—the familiar objects in the composition ground the viewer's experience.
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Gustav Hamilton’s surrealist ceramic works and acrylic paintings double as a form of self-portraiture. The artist’s work frequently depicts landscapes of the Midwest where he was born as well as personal objects from his childhood. Hamilton explores weight and perspective in compositions that imagine encounters in fabricated landscapes that include family heirlooms and hometown monuments.
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Gustav Hamilton was born in Everett, Washington in 1990. The artist received an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and a BFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana.
Solo exhibitions of Hamilton’s work include: Sucker for the Souvenir at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Colorado (2021); Six tables in a Park at Zoe Fisher Projects in New York City (2020); and Uncharacteristically Warm, a two-person exhibition at Fisher Parrish Gallery in New York City (2018).
Group exhibitions that have shown Hamilton’s work include: The Views at Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles, California (2022); Potluck at Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles, California (2022); Untitled. Miami Beach at David B. Smith Gallery in Miami, Florida (2021); Expanded Field at Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, California (2021); The Essential Goods Show at Fisher Parrish Gallery in New York City (2020); and Clay Today at The Hole in New York City (2018).
Hamilton’s work is held by the Perez Art Museum in Miami, Florida and the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum in Alfred, New York.
Hamilton lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
This ceramic and acrylic painting doubles as a form of self-portraiture—referencing the landscape of the artist's native Midwest as well as personal objects from the artist's childhood. This work is an auto-fictitious diary where real-life events merge with fictional narratives.More
- Framed: 24.0 x 21.0 x 2.8 in.
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