Ann Hamilton: OVERWEAR

Ann Hamilton (US, b. 1956) is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Her numerous major commissions include projects at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (France), the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and Dia Center for the Arts, (New York), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. She represented the United States in the 1999 Venice Biennale and has exhibited extensively around the world.

Produced entirely in-house at FWM’s Studio, Hamilton designed this functional unisex apron in two sizes and colorways. Its hand screenprinted motif is inspired by a drawing from an 18th-century weaving pattern book found in the Rare Books Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. OVERWEARevolved out of the artist’s 2016–2017 exhibition Ann Hamilton: habitus and similarly explores the intersection between cloth and shared experiences

This limited edition artist multiple was created in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum for its 40th anniversary.