All The People
(2019-Current)
Starving Artists Group Art Expo Commercial
1980s
All The People is an ongoing project consisting of large commissioned paintings of my friends and loved ones. As a kid I recall watching Saturday afternoon movies on TV. The airtime was cheaper so a majority of the commercials aired during the breaks were from local Columbus, Ohio businesses like Larmco Windows, Conns Potato Chips, and whatever was going down at the fairgrounds. Several times a year an art expo would come to town. Their commercial would announce in bold blinking letters: Sunday! Sunday! Sunday at the Fairgrounds! Art Expo! Starving Artists Prices! The camera would pan through row upon row of paintings of nature scenes, barns, and deer gently drinking out of a creek. Calming imagery for the home or office. Functional. Think Bob Ross.
I’ve long been drawn to painted portraits that used to frequent the walls of banks… hospitals… libraries. You were someone if resources were spent to have a big painting of you made. They were tacky-cool, in the sorta way I find mid century wood paneled rooms cool… anti-cool.
The genesis of this project came from a photo that was sent to me of Emily Hanlon wearing a giant reindeer mascot head. I found the image hilarious, odd, and beautiful. I realized I had many other photos of people around me wearing masks, costumes, and appearing in similar striking scenes. I started calling these photos painting worthy. Soon I found myself commissioning large portraits, big enough, no, grand enough to proudly display over a mantle of important individuals in my life. Finally… a way to collect people!
As the collection grows it has become apparent that the paintings are as much a document of me as they are my subjects. These are the people in my life and how I see them: my own National Portrait Gallery.
Polaroids of painted portraits
2005
Emily Hanlon, Scott Hammond
Emily Costume Shop Selfie
2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Leeta King
Leeta In Dinosaur Heaven
2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Mike Olenick
Mike / Carpethead
2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Julie Standish
Julie At My Party
2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Dave Kellough
Dave / Raconteur
2019
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Krista Faist
Krista Vision
2019
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Audra Phillips
Audra / Projection
2020
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Emily Hanlon
Emily in Vegas
2020
Oil on canvas
25 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Ryan Stolte-Sawa
Ryan / Howling Bitch
2020
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Pilgrim Kambitsch, Audra Phillips
Pilgrim’s Costume
2020
Oil on canvas
25 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Jim Hammond, Leeta King,
Rachel Tucker
Jim Hammond / American Summer
2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Nancy MacMillan
Nancy Is My Neighbor
2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Lisa Patrick
Lisa Of The Pacific Northwest
2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Dodd Alley
Dodd / Midnight Movie
2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 36 inches
Scott Hammond, Elizabeth Nihiser, Leeta King
Elizabeth / Crypto Seduction
2021
Oil on canvas
25x36 inches each
Scott Hammond, Mande Stedman, Audra Phillips
Mande 2020
2020
Oil on canvas
36 x 56 inches
Scott Hammond, Bob Hite, Jodi Frisby, Audra Phillips
Visiting Bob And Jodi In The Studio
2020
Oil on canvas
25x36 inches each
Scott Hammond, Emily Hanlon
Scott / All of Me(s)
2021
Oil on canvas
30x36 inches
Scott Hammond, Nick Prueher
Nick / 1-900-ALF-TALK
2021
Oil on canvas
40x36 inches each
Scott Hammond, Jamie Morse
Jamie In Pittsburgh
2022
Oil on canvas
24x36 inches