Flag Repair
A SOLO EXHIBITION AND WORKSHOP BY ALEXANDRA HAMMOND OPENING 1/18!
Jan 18 - Jan 25, 2025
Opening reception Saturday, Jan 18, 6-8 pm
Gallery hours, Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6pm
Public Workshop Jan 25, 2-4pm (Register HERE)
The Pack Studio: 526 W26th St. #807, New York, NY 10001
The Pack is pleased to present Flag Repair, a solo exhibition and teach-in by Alexandra Hammond. The exhibition will be open through January, with a public workshop held on Saturday, January 25th.
On the heels of the 2025 presidential inauguration, Hammond, who is both an interdisciplinary artist and brand strategist, addresses America’s converging crises of identity, democracy and loneliness. Using symbols from shared culture, such as the American flag and modernist painting, Hammond rebrands old institutions as living landscapes, organisms, and creative intra-actions. From her transparent Rattlesnake Flags made with india ink on silk to resemble shed snakeskin, to her oil paintings that reimagine the flag in swaths of sky, ribbons, “weeds” and eyeballs, to her experiential workshop, Flag Repair, where participants co-create a flag using the contents of their own minds, Hammond invites us into regenerative systems of thought, awareness, and practice.
The work on view examines the ideas, living communities, and landforms that we refer to as “The United States.”
As part of this living system, humans host diverse communities of microorganisms, beliefs (both conscious and unconscious), lived and ancestral experiences, and the ability to imagine our own existence as well as that of other beings. With the power and agency that come with this imagination, what futures can our consciousness design?
Now more than ever, we are aware of the ways our world is wounded: ecological systems collapsing; our nation divided economically, ideologically, interpersonally; institutions built on morally and materially toxic footings. Hammond positions this brokenness as an invitation into being with, finding compassion for self and other, choosing to stay, contend, compost and regenerate.
During the Flag Repair workshop, participants will co-create a new American flag from the inside out, tapping into individual and collective imagination. Those attending will be invited to rethink the symbol of the Flag—culturally, historically, visually—and to collaboratively produce a version that represents their own presence, knowledge, and experience.
The work and workshop included in Flag Repair invite us to remember both our interconnected pasts and collective agency in co-creating the future. Let’s compost the system!