Artist Talk: Nic Hess

JUL 15 WED: 07:00pm; Hammer Lectures

: Nic Hess So Long Sol 2007 Mixed media (charcoal and adhesives), 90 1/2 x 118 in. (230 x 300 cm). Courtesy the artist and The Project, New York.; Nic Hess Automatic Crash Response 2009 Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White.; Nic Hess Automatic Crash Response 2009 Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White.; Nic Hess Automatic Crash Response 2009 Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White.; Nic Hess Automatic Crash Response 2009 Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White.; Nic Hess Automatic Crash Response 2009 Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White.; Nic Hess Automatic Crash Response 2009 Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White.

For the Hammer's Lobby Wall, Swiss artist Nic Hess presents Automatic Crash Response, a mixture of images in tape ranging from tombstone- like monuments of several recently failed banks, animals, how-to exercise diagrams, a generic shopping cart, the USPS logo and more to weave a lyrical quasi-narrative left for the viewer to decode. Join us as Nic Hess discusses Automatic Crash Response, as well as his other works.

Followed by a Q&A.

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Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.