Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

NOW CLOSED

After studying painting, Jessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971, Chicago) became disenchanted with the medium and its fraught history and began working with papier-mâché and clay. She continually draws from history, literature, and personal experiences for inspiration and weaves these narratives into her work. Hutchins’s sculptural works combine found objects with her own ceramics, oftentimes using one as a pedestal for the other. Though sculptural, her works evoke still-life paintings, in which ordinary items are elevated to contemplative objects. The Hammer will present Carpaccio (2013), created for the 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace, alongside the painting Two Ties (2014).

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