- "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009," opens July 8th at the National Academy Museum in New York
- MOMA catalogue Compass in Hand including images from the entire collection now available
- Works in the MOMA collection now viewable online
- Selected for 2009 Northeast edition of New American Paintings
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| "Debra Hampton...collage[s] photo-based sources like magazines and television, splicing their superficial depictions of the idealized female figure with new dimensions of complexity or critique." |
| -Jen
Mergel Associate Curator, ICA, Boston |
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“If there were a video game of the fashion world, the towering bionic beauties in Debra Hampton’s Monsters and Maidens would make excellent villains - or hereos. ” |
| -James
Westcott ArtReview |
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“Constructed over a long periods of meticulosuly assembling materials, they are seemingly endowed with supernatural powers.” |
| -Jaishri
Abichandani Queens Museum Catalogue |
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“Debra Hampton’s large, riveting multi-media collages transfix the viewer well before they yield intelligible meaning... These are images of cultural turmoil, presented as frenetic masks.” |
| -Joel
Simpson The New York Art World |
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“Debra Hampton enables found imagery from popular media, especially fashion magazines, to go beyond kitsch in order to make a statement regarding personal identity within contemporary culture.” |
-Betts
Coup |
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