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David Hammons

Rock Head, 2000

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Description

Maker

David Hammons, b. 1943, American

Title

Rock Head

Year

2000

Medium

Stone, hair, metal stand

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

35.6 x 27.9 x 12.7 cm (14 x 11 x 5 inches)

Type

Sculpture

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2001.31.1

Exhibition History

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

In Rock Head, David Hammons affixed afro-textured hair to a stone to create an unconventional sculptural portrait. This and similar sculptures developed from performances the artist gave in the 1970s in Harlem, in which he gave haircuts to similar objects made using human hair sourced from African-American barbershops. These works are representative of Hammons’s transformative use of recovered materials and references to the human body to evoke visual tropes of black identity.

Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries

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