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Upcoming Gallery Show |
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"Ghat Music,"2008, Selenium toned silver gelatin print
An exhibition of the artist's photographic pieces will be presented by Galerie Lelong in New York. Click here to see More photographs from the Lelong exhibiton |
Hammond Photography Featured in Aperture |
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"Men," 2007, Selenium toned silver gelatin print
The artist's photographs are featured in the current Aperture magazine in an article by Amei Wallach entitled "Jane Hammond's Recombinant DNA." Click here to read the article in Aperture. |
Current Photograhy Exhibition in Denver |
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"Chai Wan Three ," 2008. Selenium toned silver gelatin print
A solo exhibition of the artist's silver gelatin prints and other photographic pieces will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art|Denver. Click here to read more about the exhibition at the MCA|DENVER. Click here to see More Photographs |
Museum Acquisition Recently on Exhibition and Featured in Art In America |
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"Fallen" 2004 - Ongoing. Color inkjet print, printed from digital file recto and verso, on archival paper, cut, with matt medium, Jade glue, fiberglass strand, sumi ink and additional handwork in acrylic paint and gouache, and hand-made cotton rag paper, 15" x 286 " x 90 "
"Fallen," recently acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art, was displayed at the museum in a Fall 2007 exhibition of recent acquisitions entitled “Two
Years." The piece was then exhibited in "On the Margins" at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Musuem in St. Louis. That exhibition was accompanied by a publication with text written by Eleanor Heartney and Paul Krainak. Click here to read more about the exhibition On the Margins "Fallen" was most recently on view in a solo exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Click here to read more about this exhibition at Wexner Center for the Arts. In the spring of 2009, "Fallen" will travel to the Museum of Comtemporary Art San Diego.
For the exhibiton at the Wexner the wall text which accompanied the piece read:
“Each unique handmade leaf has been inscribed by the artist with the name of a US soldier killed in the war in Iraq. This exhibition begins with 3994 leaves.”
"Fallen" was featured in an article by Faye Hirsch in the April issue of Art in America. Click here to download the article at In Memoriam
The leaves in “Fallen” have been made by the artist, they are not real leaves. They are based on leaves gathered in the Autumns of 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Washington, California and Hawaii. See below detail from the Whitney installation, 2007 |
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Detail from "Fallen" 2004 - Ongoing,
"Fallen" was first exhibited at Galerie Lelong, NY in the Spring of 2005. That exhibition opened with 1511 leaves. |
"Paper Work" Exhibition Catalogue Recently Published |
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Front Cover of "Paper Work"
The exhibition catalogue accompanying the artist's traveling museum works on paper show (more below) is now available. The 168 page catalogue with 90 color illustrations also contains essays by Faye Hirsch and Nancy Princenthal and an interview with the artist by Douglas Dreishspoon. The catalogue can be purchased directly from the the publisher at Penn State Press, from Amazon.com or at the museum venues as the tour proceeds. |
Museum Shows |
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Detail from" All Souls (Masindi)" 2006
“Jane Hammond: Paper Work” contains all manner of works on paper from 1989 through 2006 and will travel until early 2009 with exhibitions at the Tucson Museum of Art; the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI (formerly the Elvehjem Museum); the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; the Achenbach Foundation at the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA and the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI. The show is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Penn State Press and the Mt. Holyoke College Musuem, containing essays by Faye Hirsch and Nancy Princenthal and an interview with the artist by Douglas Dreishspoon. The exhibition was organized and first presented by the Mt. Holyoke College Museum of Art (2006). Click here to read more about this exhibition at de Young Museum and here for earlier visits to The Chazen Museum of Art, The Tucson Museum of Art, and the Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum . Click here to hear NPR affiliate reporter Tina Antolini's interview of Jane at the exhibition NPR Hammond Interview |
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"Charlie Delta." 2006, Selenium toned silver gelatin print
An exhibiton of the artist's silver gelatin prints was presented at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.![]() |
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Detail from "Love Laughs, " 2005, 51 1/4" x 33 3/4", Color lithograph with hand coloring and collage, Edition of 45, Published by Shark's Ink
The artist's prints were included along with works by Enrique Chagoya, Carroll Dunham and Kiki Smith in "Making a Mark: Four Contemporary Artists in Print " an exhibiton presented by the Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth DeRose and was accompanied by a brochure.
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"Tabula Rosa," 2001, color inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper, 75" x 30" , published by ULAE, edition of 43
The artist's print, "Tabula Rosa," was included in this exhibition of prints from the Museum's permanent collection that reflected various types of self-portrayal from the 1960s to the present, and one work that foreshadowed them all--F. Holland Day's The Seven Words (1898). Although each artist included took a different approach, all of the works presented intimate stories that explore some aspect of the self. |
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"Cabrito , " 2007, Selenium toned silver gelatin print
A selection of the artist's silver gelatin prints was included in a group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Line at this Woodstock, NY venue for creative contemporary photography. |
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"Perpetual Love," 2005, Selenium toned silver gelatin print
In the Spring of 2006, the Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH showed "Recent Photographs," an exhibition of thirty-one silver gelatin prints made by the artist. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue with includes an essay by critic and writer David Levi Strauss. |
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"Scrapbook,"
1995, print with lithography, silkscreen and collage, 55 x 46-1/2 x 10 inches, Edition of 45, Published by ULAE
In the Spring of 2006, the artist's prints were included in this survey of contemporary printmaking organized by English curator Jeremy Lewison. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue entitled "Art in the Age of Anxiety." |
New Print Published |
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"Spells and Incantations," 2008, Eight-color three-dimensional lithograph and silkscreen with chine colle and gold leaf, 60.5" x 18.75" x 7.5", Edition of 45, Published by Shark's Ink
The artist's newest print is currently being editioned at Shark's Ink. This three-dimensional print is assembled from twenty-six individual lithographic elements. To read more about the print please visit Shark's Ink |
Recent Gallery Shows |
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Detail from "All Souls (Kirov)," 2006-2007
An exhibition of the artist's works on paper, prints, and photographs was presented by the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA |
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"Barberini #1," 2006, Relief print with collage, 26 1/4" x 22 1/4" , Edition of 1
A one-person exhibition featuring a suite of new monoprints was presented by Pace Prints in New York. |
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"Bee Line Trucking," 2005, Selenium toned silver gelatin print
An exhibition of the artist's photographs was presented by the Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY. |
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"Wish I May, Wish I Might ," 2006, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 87" x 110"
An exhibiton of the artist's works on paper, drawings and prints was presented by the William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO. |
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"Face Facts," 2006, Selenium toned silver gelatin print
In the Summer of 2006, an exhibition of painting, works on paper and photographs was presented by Galeria Vanguardia, Bilbao, Spain |
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"Prepare for Chameleons," 2006, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 72" x 86"
In the Spring of 2006, an exhibition of paintings, works on paper and photographs was presented by Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by critic Juan Carlos Rego. Click here to read the essay in Spanish Articles about Jane Hammond. |
Publications |
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The artist's silver gelatin print, "Chai Wan" was selected as the cover image for a new CD released by Parisian-based Lebanese composer and instrumentalist Toufic Farroukh. Farroukh, also a collagist, draws from a variety of sources and traditions in his compositions and arrangements. |
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The artist's silver gelatin print, "Near Moon Beach," was selected as cover art for the publication of Raphael Rubinstein's "The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces," a collection of constraint-based poems, printed in a limited edition by Make Now Press. |
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Prior to the opening of the Rubin Museum Art in New York in 2004, the artist was asked by artists Kiki Smith and Årlene Shechet to make a flag to mark the festivities of the museum's opening. The Museum has now published a book commemorating “The Flag Project,” with essays by Simon Winchester and Katherine Anne Paul on Tibetan prayer flags, the inspiration for this project. All of the artists’ flags are reproduced in the book. |
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Detail from "19 American Studies," 2006, mixed media, 9" x 7"
Jane Hammond's "19 American Studies" is an artist book commissioned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for their Summer 2006 issue of American Art. The book features 19 paper collages, each one of which is a rebus for a notable American cultural figure, such as BB King (shown above). This commissioned rebus project grew out of a series of paintings shown at the Weatherspoon Museum in 2003. To read more about this work click here More News |
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The artist's 1989 painting "Untitled (39, 26,101)" was chosen as the cover image for Censoring Culture: Contemporay Threats to Free Expresssion, a collection of essays edited by Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva, published by The New Press. |
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Detail from The Sienese Shredder, Issue One
The artist contributed a 14 page layout of text and image to the inaugural issue of the Sienese Shredder, an annual journal of art, literature, poetry and culture, edited by Brice Brown and Trevor Winkfield. To learn more about the issue click here Hammond in The Sienese Shredder |
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The artist's 1999 drawing"Still Life with Seal" was selected as the cover image for the sixth edition of Drawing: A Contemporary Approach by Teel Sale and Claudia Betti, published in January, 2007, by Thomson/ Wadworth in a press run of 18,000 copies. |
The Community Project |
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Drawing from Fifth Grade Class, Kealakehe Primary School, Kailua-Kona, HI
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Drawing from Third Grade Class, Kealakehe Intermediate School, Kailua-Kona, HI
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Drawing from Fifth Grade Class, Holualoa School, Holualoa, HI
The artist's "Communitiy Project" is based on a notion from her own practice: even a few defined elements can provide a boundless variability of expression. She recently decided she will take a small "sample" of her lexicon, five or six elements and present them as neutrally as possible --- i.e. like the tarot cards --- to a great variety of people, of all ages, living all over the world. She'll then encourage them to create their own narratives, personal or imaginary, from these constiuent elements and realize that narrative as a drawing. The artist sees herself as a kind of facilitator but not "the artist." In a sense, the project is about the artist in all of us and the endless unpredictability of the human imagination.
In April of 2006, Jane was awarded an artist in residence grant by the Laila Art Fund to bring her Community Project to the Big Island of Hawaii, under the aupices of the Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture. She brought the project to four middle schools, a public special needs school, a home for the elderly, a home for abused women and a women's prison. She returned with over 400 drawings and ten hours of unedited videotape documenting the visits. The success of the project for all: the grantor, the venues, all the participating individuals, their institutions and the artist herself has encouraged Jane to proceed further with this unusual process-driven, experimental collaboration. With the proper support, the artist hopes to bring the project to locations around the world. Prospectively, Sweden is next with China and Trinidad to follow. The final form of the project is still open and will become manifest as the drawings and video will allow. For these Hawaiian visits, the lexicon of images presented was fire, water, clown, rope and tree. |
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