found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Hammons, David; installation artist, sculptor, printmaker; born 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, United States; studied art in Los Angeles (1964-1972); started forging sculptures from materials he collected on the street (1975); installed his famous Basketball series, Higher Goals, in vacant lots in New York City (1980s); known for a controversial work called How Ya Like Me Now? (1988); exhibited frequently in Europe: Real Time (Warsaw, Poland, 2000) and Concerto in Black and Blue (New York City, 2002); received a Rome Prize for Sculpture (1989) and a MacArthur Foundation grant (1991))