Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil | Artist Talk

From Katie Grube May 21, 2022

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Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring forms—cloth, texts spoken and written, animals, and people suspended or in motion—immerse viewers in an atmosphere both visceral and literary, individual and collective, animate and inanimate, silent and spoken. Michael Mercil received an MFA from the University of Chicago in 1988, and a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 1978. His art explores the realms of “the near, the low, the common” in works somewhere close to—if not always within—the categories of sculpture, drawing, painting, landscape architecture, film, performance, and farming. Recorded on Apr. 28, 2022.

Hamilton and Mercil were the 2022 spotlight artists in residence in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies. The talk was organized by The California Studio in the Department of Art and Art History.

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Appears In: Art Studio at UC Davis Colleges College of Letters and Science Art & Architecture

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