Harmony Hammond, Feminist Icon, on Adapting a “Survivor Aesthetic”

Political discourse has always flowed freely in Harmony Hammond’s art. Hammond arrived in New York in 1969, months after the Stonewall riots rocked Greenwich Village. Against the backdrop of the gay liberation and women’s liberation movements, she came of age as an artist while attending consciousness-raising meetings and participating in the founding of A.I.R. Gallery, the first women-run nonprofit artist cooperative in the United States. After coming out in 1973, Hammond became an