Book Talk: Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader edited by Tirza True Latimer

Celebrate the release of Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader, edited by Tirza True Latimer, with pioneering artist, writer, educator, and curator Harmony Hammond. Featuring a conversation between Hammond and artist Steve Locke, this gathering offers an opportunity to engage with the work and legacy of one of the defining figures of New York's feminist and lesbian art movements.

Still Dangerous!, with an introduction by Latimer and a foreword by Julia Bryan-Wilson, brings together five decades of Hammond’s writings addressing the historical invisibility of women and lesbian artists, the politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary creative practice, materiality, feminism’s expanding purview, resisting censorship, and strategies of feminist and queer abstraction. Compiling essays, reviews, artist’s statements, presentations, letters, and interviews, Still Dangerous! fleshes out Hammond’s career while providing a valuable resource for scholars and students of contemporary culture.

Harmony Hammond (b. 1944) is an artist, educator, writer, and independent curator. A leading figure in the development of the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970s, she attended the University of Minnesota from 1963–67, before moving to New York in 1969. She was a co-founder of  A.I.R., the first women's co-operative art gallery founded in New York during the second wave of feminism (1972), and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (1976). Since 1984, Hammond has lived and worked in northern New Mexico, teaching at the University of Arizona, Tucson from 1989–2006. Hammond’s earliest feminist work combined gender politics with post-minimal concerns of materials and process, frequently occupying a space between painting and sculpture – a focus that continues to this day.

Steve Locke (b.1963) was born in Cleveland, OH and lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Locke’s practice critically engages with the Western canon to muse on the connections between desire, identity, and violence.

Copies of Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader will be available for purchase.

Accesibility
Chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available. 

For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.