Sonya Hammons Art

Sonya Hammons Art Art by Sonya Hammons: textile sculpture, wearable art, interactive installations. "In Place" on exhibit at MarinMOCA Nov 14-Dec 24

Still waiting on the city permit for the outdoor installation I was scheduled to put up 5 weeks ago. The good news is th...
12/13/2020

Still waiting on the city permit for the outdoor installation I was scheduled to put up 5 weeks ago. The good news is that with this particular installation friends can wrap themselves up in pieces of it, in this case over their backpacks.

So the outdoor public art didn’t happen, but participatory performance art did.

The museum store is still open, where this galavanized steel bucket of felted soaps awaits to console and brighten wear...
12/13/2020

The museum store is still open, where this galavanized steel bucket of felted soaps awaits to console and brighten weary hands and bodies.

And the rest of my body of work for along with just so happens to be visible when you enter the museum to get to the store. Including the sheet metal/wool felt piece that inspired the soap display.

Soaps also available on my website. Wherever your place may be, may you be peacefully nestled.

Little boxes. The museum is closed again so let’s do a tour of . These boxes look similar to each other in shape and ...
12/11/2020

Little boxes.

The museum is closed again so let’s do a tour of .

These boxes look similar to each other in shape and each have a handmade felt exterior, but their core materials differ: oak and aluminum. Clasp them in your hand and in this intimate connection their strikingly different weights and tactile sensations reveal themselves.

The materials are from my local industrial neighborhood, where small-town-politics-as-microcosm-of-broader-issues rage about how and where and why to develop housing.

I’m thinking of the song - based on homogenous housing developments in the Bay Area. And also exploring how things look similar on the outside and can be inherently, internally different in their unseen origin story.

📷Steve Nuzzo

12/08/2020

Surge in felted soap orders - thank you for the motivation to make more!

They’re caressed tenderly to coax everything into place - soap is a very intimate and tactile experience after all. Get them while I have hand dyed and locally sourced climate-beneficial wool for a full-on feel good experience.

Each one is different, in some combo of black, white, gray and silk, like a precious hunk of marble to adorn your shower (or just your desk if it’s too pretty to use).

Making them involves washing my hands for hours at a time - so very 2020-style.

Late afternoon winter light streams through the arched, paned doorway of at Hamilton Field, a decommissioned Air Force ...
12/06/2020

Late afternoon winter light streams through the arched, paned doorway of at Hamilton Field, a decommissioned Air Force base built in the 1930s. The light bounces off the piece in the center. A good spot for some site-specific light-reactive next time.

Want to rub a sculpture all over your body and keep covid at bay? ⁣I do. That’s why I made ridiculously beautiful soaps ...
12/05/2020

Want to rub a sculpture all over your body and keep covid at bay?
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I do. That’s why I made ridiculously beautiful soaps to match my artwork in the exhibit at
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Not your average craft fair kind of soap. We’re talking 10 different kinds of hand dyed wool and silk meticulously crafted into a thin layer of just-the-right-balance-of-soft-and-exfoliating felt over lusciously moisturizing unscented coconut oil glycerin soap.
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Felted soap is like a soap/washcloth combo, with just the right weight for sloughing off what needs to shed. It makes the soap last a really long time, prevents it from becoming a gooey mess, avoids the plastic packaging of body wash, and is easy (not slippery) to hold in your hand.
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And super beautiful. These little guys look like precious gems, honoring the coveted treasure that soap became in 2020.

Available online in my shop and in person at the MarinMOCA museum store.
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This tidbit is one inch tall and may be my favorite piece of the last few months. I love it’s surprising weight - - a s...
11/30/2020

This tidbit is one inch tall and may be my favorite piece of the last few months.

I love it’s surprising weight - - a steel core within its tiny fluffy exterior.

Its center is starting to influence the outer silk layer by rust-dyeing itself from the inside out.

This one incorporates silk paper that I made in 2006. A nonverbal time capsule. I liked that this one could stand up ver...
11/25/2020

This one incorporates silk paper that I made in 2006. A nonverbal time capsule.

I liked that this one could stand up vertically and look kind of imposing like a chess piece. But then someone leaned it against the wall, which seems straightforward but I had not thought to do it, and I like that too.

Wool, silk, silk paper on white oak.

Folks have arranged these sculptures differently every time I’ve visited the gallery . They are salvaged pieces of steel...
11/22/2020

Folks have arranged these sculptures differently every time I’ve visited the gallery . They are salvaged pieces of steel, aluminum, oak and shorea 3 dimensionally felted with wool and silk. I like how they look like precious gems, sourced from my neighborhood gems of remaining industrial businesses.

Tour In Place from your place! and I will be at to let you in on the processes behind our show. Come on in!4pm pacific...
11/17/2020

Tour In Place from your place!

and I will be at to let you in on the processes behind our show. Come on in!

4pm pacific time on Nov 17, link in bio.

I’m so thankful to and for all the help putting this together!

Check out ‘In Place,’ from your place! 4pm CA time Tues Nov 17. Zoom link in bio.It’s been a wild year since I learned I...
11/17/2020

Check out ‘In Place,’ from your place! 4pm CA time Tues Nov 17.

Zoom link in bio.

It’s been a wild year since I learned I’d have this exhibit opportunity through . Not a single thing in there is something I’d planned to show. Which makes it fitting for 2020.

I’ll share a bit about my process and materials (handmade felt - when’s the last time you saw that as a fine art medium?).

will share the story behind her vivid paintings of data from the Census Bureau’s Opportunity Atlas project.

Come say hi and ask us things.

11/16/2020

Fave part of this exhibit so far: watching watch this.

These off-concentric circles are covered in a deconstructed handmade wool/silk felt VOTE flag, and handmade felt in with found objects from local marine industry businesses, hand herringbone stitched onto found hoops. Found object shibori means I took scraps of wood and metal from boatbuilders and used them as resists, so that the memory of their shape remains on the cloth.

Inspired by helms of boats and their form-fitting hand stitched leather ( has stitch skillz).

Thank you so much Liz, for the visit, and for reminding me to trust myself.

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