Staci Bu Shea is the artist-in-residence at Crisp Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, Florida, and curatorial fellow at Casco Art Institute. Carmel Curtis is a moving image archivist and curator and a member of the XFR Collective.
A testament to the singular combination of sincerity and irreverent humor that characterizes [Hammer's] sex-positive feminism. . . . Hammer's work reminds us that visibility is a political act. --Holland Cotter Artforum Hammer prefers the term 'actionary' to 'visionary' in describing the work of other queer artists she has documented and promoted over the decades. On the basis of this show, I'd say both terms apply to her. --Holland Cotter New York Times