Harmony Hammond: Rust Never Sleeps presents large-scale paintings made within the last three years that continue Hammond's disruption of Minimalist abstraction with latent political content and charged material presence. Four canvases incorporate rusted stamped metal scavenged from abandoned buildings in the American Southwest, holding the history of dispossession alongside Hammond's signature grommet-studded, sutured, and overlapping painted canvas and burlap. A blood-stained crimson rectangle hangs like a warning in Red Flag; a lace-trimmed apron introduces oppositional domesticity in Attachments. Throughout, abstraction functions as a site for social meaning and the canvas as a stand-in for the body — entropy remaining generative, survival leaving its marks visible.
