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Phat Free
Part shaman, part huckster, Hammons has sold snowballs on an uptown sidewalk; created elegant, slightly less ephemeral sculpture from chicken bones and human hair gathered from a Harlem barbershop; and exhibited a billboard portrait of Jesse Jackson in whiteface outside the 1990 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Both raucous and haunting, Phat Free is the artist's only video.
Artwork Details
- Title: Phat Free
- Artist: David Hammons (American, born Springfield, Illinois, 1943)
- Date: 1995/1999
- Medium: Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, color, sound, 5 min., 4 sec.
- Classification: Variable Media
- Credit Line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2003
- Object Number: 2003.269
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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