Annamarie Ho

Annamarie Ho’s practice examines a diverse range of subjects, all which are products of capitalist consumer culture. Her investigations of the commercialization of desire and gendered hegemony in popular culture and the art-historical canon are intertwined with the formal compositional elements of each work.

In the body of work Tute, she mines the system of sponsorship and design of Formula One racing suits, resulting in “paintings” that are reduced to sewn fabric and logo-less patches. Their minimal compositions, however, are still evocative of advertising’s seductive qualities and the spectacle of Formula One. Limited to flat fields of color, these works also allude to hard-edge abstraction.

Home Depot Paintings is a series of ceramic pieces that transform everyday objects found in hardware stores, such as vents and pegboards, which are mass produced for the middle-class and lower-income market. The works are colorfully-glazed and installed on the wall as ‘painting’ —historically the most privileged form of art. By re-appropriating mundane objects, the series encourages the viewer to re-consider the source material and its representation.