Signal Interference, 2024
In “Signal Interference”, Rebecca Hamm presents paintings that glow with layered color, shimmer with energy and crackle with texture. The emerging forms create flexible dimensions by appearing to slide between immediate views and deeply distant visual spaces.
“Signal Interference”, as title for this group of works, literally refers to bringing wonder to unfamiliar energy waves, such as an intensely scratched electronic sound distortion or a refracted and unsettling light wave. These paintings offer opportunities to resonate in new territory.
Hamm’s artworks are performances where paint flows and swirls, signals appear and disappear, images are scraped and carved away with tools, and layers are healed with sensitive touch. The process synthesizes material experimentations and intuitive methods to create paintings that evoke visceral experiences of light, sound and movement all based upon observations of the power of nature, seen and unseen
