Under My Skin

The paintings are layered and built out of themselves—from the inside out. [...] Up close under-layers of color are visible through surface cracks and crevices. It’s about what’s hidden, what’s revealed, buried, muffled, pushing up from underneath.…a surface under stress. Might the painting surface as edge between art and life be a site of negotiation?
—Harmony Hammond

Campeche presents Under My Skin, a two-part exhibition that explores the process of layering as a method to partially reveal, obscure, or filter shared experiences within contemporary queer culture. Taken together, the works create multiple entry points for the viewer, who is invited to do their own excavation of sorts, reading and interpreting the codex of signs and symbols embedded in each work.

The starting point of the exhibition is Harmony Hammond, an artist, writer, and curator, who is a leading figure in the development of feminist and queer art since the 1970s. ​​Hammond’s earliest feminist work combined gender politics with post-minimal concerns of materials and process, opening the door to future generations of queer artists, writers, and thinkers.

— Campeche

Part I: Geoffrey Chadsey, Samuel de Saboia, Harmony Hammond, Steve Locke, Robert Martin, Pedro Ruxa, Logan T. Sibrel

Opening reception: Saturday, April 30, 12–4 PM

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