Hammer Projects: Math Bass
HAMMER | Sep. 29, 2018–Mar. 17, 2019, Hammer Museum
Los Angeles-based artist and UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumna Math Bass creates a site-specific mural for the Hammer’s lobby wall.
Working across a range of media, including painting and sculpture, Math Bass employs a distinctive language of abstract, brightly colored shapes and images to explore notions of multiplicity. Her stylized forms, from bones doubling as speech bubbles to teeth resembling a set of stairs leading into a crocodile’s mouth, are rendered deliberately ambiguous and often installed to mirror each other across two and three-dimensional works. Playing with bodily and architectural scale for the Hammer Museum’s lobby wall, Bass invites the viewer to inhabit a liminal space where definition and hierarchy are playfully subverted to allow for new possibilities of experience.
Hammer Projects: Math Bass is organized by Connie Butler, chief curator, with Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant.
This event is presented by the Hammer Museum at UCLA.
Event Date: Sep. 29, 2018–Mar. 17, 2019
Venue: Hammer Museum
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 11 a.m.–8 p.m., Saturday-Sunday: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Price: Free
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.
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