Biography
Damon Hamm is best known for public sculpture and metalwork that transforms scientific concepts into visual forms that play with light and shadow.
Damon received a BFA from Oberlin College and MS from Carnegie Mellon University. Damon’s sculptures have been installed in public parks in New York City, Chicago Illinois, and Key West Florida. They have been broadcast on PBS and NY1 and featured in New York Magazine, New York Daily News, Gothamist, and Time Out New York. His smaller works appear in private collections across Arizona, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Additional accolades include research grants from Carnegie Mellon University, fellowship with the Art Students League of New York, and a U.S. Patent for a mobile computer vision system.
Originally hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Damon weaves between the worlds of art and science. Early in his career, Damon Hamm studied architecture and sculpture under luminary Athena Tacha and apprenticed for architect Paolo Soleri. Damon went on to create ‘fictional scientific artifacts’, short-form documentaries, interactive robotic art, and pursue a graduate degree studying how people physiologically and psychologically interpret visual, aural, and tactile information.
Damon's recent work is focused on creating abstract compositions in metal that accentuate the material’s ability to interplay with light, shadow, and reflection. The resulting forms evoke a sense of captured motion, optical scintillation, or temporal progression as if every stage of the object’s evolution became visible at once. Or in his words, “an attempt to capture time”.
Damon also consults as a User Experience Design Director and provides Digital Art Services for other artists (3D modeling, printing, lasercut, cnc, etc.).
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