Conversations
Artist Talk: Nic Hess
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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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Nic Hess, So Long Sol, 2007Mixed 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, 2009Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White. -
Nic Hess, Automatic Crash Response, 2009Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White. -
Nic Hess, Automatic Crash Response, 2009Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White. -
Nic Hess, Automatic Crash Response, 2009Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White. -
Nic Hess, Automatic Crash Response, 2009Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White. -
Nic Hess, Automatic Crash Response, 2009Mixed-media tape drawing installation. Installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009. Photo by Josh White.
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.
