Ann Hamilton

This exhibition catalog documents Ann Hamilton's complex installation which links eight separate galleries on two floors of The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Drawing on the building's history as a store, bank, home, and church, Hamilton explores the incongruity between The Aldrich Museum's exterior, an austere 200 year old New England home, and the interior, an ever-changing exhibition space for contemporary art Hamilton's installation uses a pulley system to draw a white cloth through all of the galleries, and guides the viewer to such things as a spinning floor, a weeping wall, and a table with a levitating table cloth. This full-color edition includes a poem by esteemed poet Ann Lauterbach written as part of a close dialogue with Hamilton, as well as a descriptive text by Nancy Princenthal.