Los Angeles’s Good Mother Gallery has worked with rising artist Sean Hamilton on a new limited edition print entitled Tire with Chains. Born in Idaho and now based in Seattle, Hamilton’s practice revolves around the nuances of rural Midwestern life, drawing on his experience in advertising to cull disparate visual pairings to force an immediacy on topics that range various socio-political topics.
Many of Hamilton’s graphic compositions feature a subject on negative space, followed by a divide that signals a difference in worldviews — from racecar drivers fighting on the track to a white flag ushering in surrender. “Absurd as it is, I think there’s something to be learned by bringing these raw themes to contemporary art,” Hamilton previously said in an interview. “Over these few years though the work has evolved to middle American life in general and its inherent absurdity, both in the way it sees the world and the way it’s seen by the world. Splitting the canvas in some ways reinforces that divide and in some ways just produces a more interesting narrative.”
As the title implies, Hamilton’s latest print features a rugged off-road tire bound together by steel chains hovering over a cream backdrop. Limited to an edition of 50, the artwork measures 22 x 15.5 inches, comes signed, numbered and printed on Moab Entrada Natural 290gsm cotton rag paper for $100 USD.
