Allison Janae Hamilton Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1984 -

Allison Janae Hamilton is an artist who works in photography, installation, video, sculpture and taxidermy. Within these diverse media, Hamilton's develops themes from various fairy tales, myths, superstitions, sermons, relics and archival family photographs; her images are deeply rooted within the imagined adventures of fictional characters and their environments. Her work draws from the literary ideas of magical realism, Southern Gothic, and the carnivalesque. Hamilton is a 2018-19 artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Hamilton's work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, the Jewish Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the Rush Arts Foundation, New York.

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    • ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) Metal tambourines in churchyard covered in snakeskins.
      Nov. 26, 2024

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) Metal tambourines in churchyard covered in snakeskins.

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) Metal tambourines in churchyard covered in snakeskins. Archival pigment print, 2015. 507x760 mm; 20x30 (sheet), full margins. Studio proof. Signed in ink, verso. From Sweet milk in the badlands. Note This print is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from the artist's studio, New York.

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    • Mask with Grey Flowers
      Feb. 05, 2024

      Mask with Grey Flowers

      Est: $12,000 - $18,000

      Allison Janae Hamilton b. 1984 Mask with Grey Flowers Executed in 2021/2023. Vintage metal and leather 13 x 9 3/4 x 8 in. (33 x 24.8 x 20.3 cm) Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by the Norton Museum of Art (the “Norton”), and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by the Norton. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with the Norton so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.

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    • Allison Janae Hamilton, b. 1984, Brecencia and Pheasant
      May. 20, 2023

      Allison Janae Hamilton, b. 1984, Brecencia and Pheasant

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      Allison Janae Hamilton b. 1984 Brecencia and Pheasant 2015-1016 archival pigment print in artist's frame 20 x 30 inches (oval) signed, titled, and inscribed, 2015/2016 print, numbered 1/4 from the series, Sweet Milk in the Badlands Provenance: private collection, Philadelphia, PA

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    • ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) Brecencia and Pheasant.
      Dec. 10, 2020

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) Brecencia and Pheasant.

      Est: $5,000 - $7,000

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) Brecencia and Pheasant. Archival pigment print, in the artist's frame, 2015-16. 508x838 mm; 20x30 inches (oval). Signed, titled and inscribed "2015/2016 print" and numbered 1/4 in pencil, verso. From the series Sweet Milk in the Badlands. Provenance: gift of the artist; acquired at Rush Philanthropic Art Foundation Benefit Auction, New Yor; private collection (2018). Allison Janae Hamilton works in photography, installation, video, sculpture and taxidermy. Within these diverse media, Hamilton's develops themes from the literary ideas of magical realism, Southern Gothic, and the carnivalesque. According to the artist's webstite statement, her series , Sweet milk in the badlands "looks toward ritual, storytelling, and trance in search of the connections between landscape and selfhood, place and disturbance. It invites an uncanny cast of haints to lead the viewer through the beginnings of an epic tale that animates the land as a guide and witness." Hamilton was a 2018-19 artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and her work has been exhibited widely nationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, Storm King Art Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PS1, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Jewish Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Pitch at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams and Passage at Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, both in 2018.

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    • ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) When the wind has teeth.
      Jun. 04, 2020

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) When the wind has teeth.

      Est: $5,000 - $7,000

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) When the wind has teeth. Archival pigment print, in artist's frame, 2015. 406x610 mm; 16x24 inches, face mounted. Signed, dated and numbered 1/4 in pencil on the frame back. Provenance: acquired from the 2015 Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) benefit auction, New York, donated by the artist; private collection, Philadelphia. Hamilton provided the following artist's statement that accompanied the MoCADA auction: From an ongoing group of works called Sweet milk in the badlands. "With these artworks, I'm imagining what rural black surrealism can look and feel like. I'm curious about what the model of the epic myth can produce against the backdrop of the American south. Landscape, fantasy, and the haunted self are the themes I keep coming back to while working in photography, sculpture, installation, and taxidermy.' Another edition of this photograph was featured in the artist's solo exhibition, Pitch, at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, March 25, 2018 – March 17, 2019.

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    • ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) The Traveller III.
      Apr. 04, 2019

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) The Traveller III.

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (1984 - ) The Traveller III. Chromogenic print, 2014. 610x610 mm; 24x24 inches, face mounted. Signed, dated and numbered 2/7 in white ink on the mount verso. Provenance: donated by the artist and acquired from the 2016 Exhibition and Art Auction Gala, Washington Project for the Arts; private collection, Washington DC (2016). Allison Janae Hamilton is an artist who works in photography, installation, video, sculpture and taxidermy. Within these diverse media, Hamilton's develops themes from various fairy tales, myths, superstitions, sermons, relics and archival family photographs; her images are deeply rooted within the imagined adventures of fictional characters and their environments. Her work draws from the literary ideas of magical realism, Southern Gothic, and the carnivalesque. Hamilton is a 2018-19 artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Hamilton's work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, the Jewish Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the Rush Arts Foundation, New York.

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