Event Detail - Hammer Museum

FEB 18 SAT: Hammer Projects

: Alex Hubbard The Border, The Ship 2011 Single-channel video, color with sound. 9 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.; Alex Hubbard A Piece of the Tube that Things Go Down (Garbage One) 2011 Plastic, resin, acrylic, and oil on canvas. 62 x 84 in. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.; Alex Hubbard Untitled 2011 Acrylic, enamel paint, resin, and fiberglass on canvas. 84 x 62 in. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.; Alex Hubbard An Abbreviated Catalogue of Artistic Reference II 2009 Video, color with sound. 9 minutes, 45 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.; Alex Hubbard Annotated Plans for an Evacuation 2010 Video, color with sound. 5 minutes, 46 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.; Alex Hubbard Eat Your Friends 2012 Digital video, color, sound 5:39 min. Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York.

Alex Hubbard

Construction and art materials, urban detritus, domestic items, and even the occasional animal make their way into New York-based artist Alex Hubbard’s dynamic videos. Avoiding a single point of focus, he constructs his videos in layers, creating all-over compositions in which movement is multi-directional and time seems non-linear. Also a painter, his videos and paintings are constructed through parallel strategies, both exploring the construction, composition, mass, color, and depth of images in unexpected ways. Hubbard’s elaborate Foley soundtracks add a delightful and provocative dimension to his adventurous visual narratives that challenge notions of duration and question the difference between looking and watching. Hammer Projects: Alex Hubbard will mark the debut of his newest video, Eat Your Friends (2011). Presented alongside The Border, The Ship (2010), the exhibition will highlight Hubbard’s increasingly complex videos that engulf viewers with bold colors, performative gestures, and evolving compositions. Organized by Hammer curatorial associate Corrina Peipon, Hammer Projects: Alex Hubbard is his first one-person museum exhibition.

Hammer Projects is made possible by a major gift from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy. Additional support is provided by Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; City of Los Angeles; the Decade Fund; and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund.