Insider's Picks: Katy Hamer
Katy hamer
Katy Hamer is a professional freelance art writer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Katy Hamer, Photo by Kelsey Fowler, 2020
Katy Diamond Hamer is an art writer with a focus on contemporary art and culture. Writing reviews, profiles, interviews and previews, she started the online platform Eyes Towards the Dove in 2007 and was first published in print in 2011 with Flash Art International. Hamer had a column with Flash Art from 2011-2016. Interview highlights for various publications include Robert Storr, Helmut Lang, Courtney Love, and Rebecca Horn. Taking a cue from art writers such as Jerry Saltz and movements such as Arte Povera, Hamer believes that the language used to describe contemporary art should be both accessible to a large audience as well as informed regarding art historical references. Having grown up in New York, she has been visiting art museums and galleries since the age of 16 and cannot imagine a world without art, or the written words used to allow others to also experience a particular level of engagement.
Her writing has appeared in Cultured, Galerie, W magazine, Vulture (New York Magazine), The Creative Independent, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Grand Life and others.
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Rajni Perera
I take a journey, you take a journey, we take a journey together, 2020
Leather, trim, cotton, beads, metallic thread, beeralu lace and rubber gas mask
10 × 9 × 7 in
25.4 × 22.9 × 17.8 cm
Courtesy of PatelBrown
Rajni Perera
Ancestor 2 , 2019
Mixed media on stretched paper
48 × 36 in
121.9 × 91.4 cm
Courtesy of PatelBrown
Guillaume Pinard
Ego, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
19 7/10 × 19 7/10 × 4/5 in
50 × 50 × 2 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
ELIA ALBA
Gentle Warrior, 2019
Silk screen transfer on fabric, French lace with pearls, thread, wire, poly-fil, zipper, acrylic
6 × 8 × 10 in
15.2 × 20.3 × 25.4 cm
Courtesy of Samsøñ
Julia Kunin
Standing Double Dish, 2015
Ceramic
21 × 14 × 11 in
53.3 × 35.6 × 27.9 cm
Courtesy of Mother Gallery
Nyugen E. Smith
Bundlehouse (Fourteen x Eleven No.5), 2019
Mixed media and collage on panel, wood hand-made artist frame
14 × 11 in
35.6 × 27.9 cm
Courtesy of Samsøñ
Chris Akordalitis
Museum Night, 2020
Oil and Pastel on Canvas
59 1/10 × 59 1/10 × 2 in
150 × 150 × 5 cm
Courtesy of Dio Horia
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola
CAMOUFLAGE #014 (Valentino), 2020
Du-rags and acrylic on wood panel
48 × 48 × 1 1/2 in
121.9 × 121.9 × 3.8 cm
Courtesy of Slag (NYC)