Director, Glenn Lowry: Sarah Suzuki
Curator, Sarah Suzuki: Hamilton is an artist who actually trained as a textile designer before she turned to a fine art practice. What she did in this case, is she was playing with the idea of fabric as the image itself. She took these big pieces of silk organza and she sort of stressed them out with kind of a wire brush and you can see those stressings are where is where you get the fabric to pull apart. So ask you look very closely at the work, you can see that the warp and the weft are very visible.
Glenn Lowry: Hamilton worked with a print studio in Los Angeles to transfer the fabric onto lithographic plates.
Sarah Suzuki: They were able to transfer the texture and the pattern that she made on those stressed-out pieces fabric onto the litho plates, and then print them that way. What Hamilton has done is she's taken this piece of commercially-produced fabric, which is by its very nature, is very rigid grid. And what she's done is to work it in a way to explode that notion, and to open it up and to make it very personal and irregular and hand-manipulated.