Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
 
Detail of "Album (Madeline Tomaini)," 2007, archival digital ink jet prints, rice paper, Jade glue, archival tape, ink, graphite, found photo corners, and soot

Jane Hammond Featured in February ARTnews


The artist was just featured in an article by Hilarie Sheets. To read the article click ARTnews February 2013
 
Detail from "All Souls (Tongeren)" 2013,

Solo Exhibition at Art Brussels 2013

April 18 -21, 2013
Galerie Lelong Paris will present a solo exhibition of the artist's work at Art Brussels 2013.
 
"A Room of One's Own (Picasso)," 2012, Unique hand-colored relief print with collage, 35" x 56 3/8", Monotype

Collaged Monoprints at Pace Prints, NY

January 25 - March 2, 2013
Pace Prints is pleased to present Collaged Monoprints, an exhibition of new hand-colored monoprint drawings by Jane Hammond, created in the Pace Paper studios in Brooklyn, New York. This is Hammond's fourth solo exhibition with Pace Prints.

A Room of One's Own, the title given to each of the large-scale works in Hammond's exhibition, describes the individuality of the depicted interior space based upon its invented composition, color and collaged elements. In this body of work, as always, Hammond works in a method of recombination, making an array of figures, animals and objects, combining and recombining them to create myriad and changing associations in each collage. All of this play occurs inside a recurring Renaissance-style room, with deep perspectival space. Each room is extensively hand-painted and contains up to seventy elements, individually cut out and collaged into the space. Hammond's capacious hand-painting is combined with relief printing, linoleum block printing, etching, digital printing and rubber stamping in all of the works.  To read more about the exhibition visit Hammond at Pace Prints
 
"Diving Board Couple,"2012, Acrylic paint on mica over Plexiglass with silver, gold, copper and palladium leaf, 51.5" x 31" x 3.75"

Jane Hammond Selected to Receive Anonymous Was A Woman Grant

October 19, 2012
Anonymous Was A Woman has announced the ten artists selected to receive the Foundation's seventeenth annual awards.  The grant enables women over 45 years of age and at a significant junction in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work. This year's winners include Ann Agee, Uta Barth, Andrea Fraser, Jane Hammond, Mary Kelly, Jae Ko, Judy Pfaff, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson and Jessica Stockholder.  To read more about the award and this year's winners visit Anonymous Was A Woman
 
"CanYou Draw This?,"2008, Selenium toned silver gelatin ;rint

Jane Hammond Appointed Senior Critic at Yale School of Art


The Artist will serve as Senior Critic at the Yale School of Art for the Fall Semester 2012

New Publications
 
Front Cover

Conversations from the Print Studio

Yale University Press
Master Printer Craig Zammiello and Curator Elizabeth Hodarmarsky engage in lively discussions with 10 contemporary artists including Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Jane Hammond, Suzanne McClelland, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Matthew Ritchie, Kiki Smith, and Terry Winters. These conversations follow ten unique projects from inception to completion, tracing each artist's initial vision, the artist's and printer's creative strategies, and reactions to the final product. By documenting the dual perspectives of artist and printer, the book reveals recent innovations in the field of printmaking as well as the collaborative nature of art-making itself. The result is a rare behind-the-scenes excursion into the workings of the contemporary print studio. To learn more about the book visit Yale University Press
 
Front Cover

ALBUM: Organisationsform narrativer Koharenz

By Anke Kramer and Annegret Pelz
The artist's work is on the cover (above) and other work and an essay by her is featured in the text of ALBUM, a collection of scholarly contributions by professors, critics and investigators on the history of the organizing metaphor of albums and the current forms of album making activity in practices of art, science and social media. In German only. To learn more about the book, edited by Anke Kramer and Annegret Pelz, please visit Wallstein Verlag Publishing

Solo Exhibitions
 
"Girl Lying Down" 2011, Acrylic paint on mica over plexiglass with silver, gold, copper and palladium leaf, 29.5" x 43.5" x 3.75"

Light Now: Dazzle Paintings and Photographs at Galerie Lelong, New York

September 8 - October 22, 2011
An exhibition of the artist's paintings and photographs was recently presented at Galerie Lelong in New York. This exhibition was just selected to lead the list of Art in America's 2011 Top Ten Painting shows. Click here to view the Top Ten Click Art in America to read Nancy Princenthal's review of the exhibition.  To view more paintings from the show click on DazzlePaintings at Lelong
 
"The Return," 2011, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Photographs from the Galerie Lelong Exhibition


To view other photographs from the show click on More Photograhs at Lelong
 
"Shoe Girl,"2010, Acrylic paint on mica over plexiglass with silver, gold, copper and palladium leaf, 48" x 30" 3.75"

Cabinet de Curiosites at Galerie Lelong in Paris

May 20 - July 10, 2010
An exhibition of the artist's paintings, photographs, and mixed media paper pieces was recently presented at Galerie Lelong in Paris.
 
Botanical Collage #16, 2008, Relief print with collage and hand painting on prepared paper, 50" x 38", Edition of 1, Published by Pace Editions

Collaged Monoprints at Pace Prints, New York

April 1 -May 8, 2010
An exhibition of the artist's botanical collages was recently presented at the East 57th gallery of Pace Prints in New York.  To read a review of the show in the current Art News click here Barbara  A.MacAdam on Hammond To view other prints from the exhibition please visit my page for More Prints. 

Fallen Returns for Exhibition in New York
 
Installation view at the FLAG Art Foundation of "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, 12" x 288 " x 84 "

"Fallen" at the FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea

September 23 - December 31, 2011
"Fallen" was recently on exhibition at the FLAG Art Foundation on West 25th Street in New York.  This exhibition began with 4455 leaves.  To read more about this installation visit Fallen at the FLAG Art Foundation

"Fallen" is now briefly depicted in the Whitney's virtual tour of their new downtown building set to open in 2015.  This video can be viewed on the Whitney's New Building Website

"Fallen," 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.   "Fallen" was later displayed in solo exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA and then at the FLAG Art Foundation.

Find more information about these exhibitions at Wexner Center for the Arts.  See image below to read the wall text from the exhibition in San Diego.  Click here to view pictures of the artist installing the piece at MCASD Set on Flickr

"Fallen," was featured and more fully considered in the history of war memorials, in an essay by Amanda Potter in the 2009 summer issue of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Journal. To read the essay click on Collecting Leaves, Assembling Memory: Jane Hammond's Fallen and the Function of War Memorials

"Fallen" was previously featured in an article by Faye Hirsch in the April 2008 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, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Washington, California and Hawaii. See below detail from the Whitney installation, 2007
 
Detail from Fallen at the FLAG Art Foundation



 




 
"Fallen" at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH


May 10 - August 3, 2008
 
Detail from "Fallen" 2004 - Ongoing,

"Fallen" at Galerie Lelong

Spring, 2005
"Fallen" was first exhibited at Galerie Lelong, NY in the Spring of 2005.  That exhibition opened with 1511 leaves.

Museum of Modern Art Acquires "Album (Madeline Tomaini)" and Recently on View
 
"Album (Madeline Tomaini)," 2007, 42" x 108" (framed), archival digital ink jet prints, rice paper, Jade glue, archival tape, ink, graphite, found photo corners, and soot

On View Summer 2009

June 2 - September 14, 2009
In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art acquired a large multi-part photographic work entitled "Album (Madeline Tomaini)."  In this piece, the artist has inserted  herself in the found photographs/lives of others shown above in full and in a passage/detail shown below. The work was recently on view in the museum with a selection of contemporary photographs in the Menschel Gallery. To view this work in the Modern's collection click on MoMA
 





Museum Shows
 
"Untitled (221 181. 275. 156, 227)" 1991-1992, Oil on canvas, 76" x 70"  Private Collection

Houdini: Art and Magic Finishes Tour at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

February 11 - May 13, 2012
Organized by the Jewish Museum in New York, this first exhibition in a major American art museum on the master magician and his lasting influence on visual culture Houdini: Art and Magic features magic apparatus, posters, broadsides, period photographs, archival files and contemporary artworks inspired by the magician and escape artist.  Works by the artist, Matthew Barney, Petah Coyne, Vic Muniz, Deborah Oropallo and Raymond Pettibon are included in this exhibition. The exhibition traveled throughout 2010, 2011 and 2012 from the Jewish Museum in New York to the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin.  To read more about the exhibition please visit Houdini: Art and Magic
 
"The Touch-Up,"2009, Selenium toned silver gelatin ;rint

"New Photographs of Late" at the Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham

October 2 - 31, 2009
An solo exhibition of the artist's photographs was presented at the Visual Arts Gallery in Birmingham, AL.  The artist was selected as the museum's Pauline Ireland Visiting Artist for October 2009 and was present at the gallery for a lecture on October 9.

Print News
 
 Detail from "Full House," 1992-1993, Intaglio  silkscreen and litho with collage, 78.5" x 51" Edition of 32, Published by ULAE

"American Printmaking Now" Travels in China

Various Dates 2010- 2011
Full House and other of the artist's prints were recently on view in this exhibition which was accompanied by a catalogue with essays  by Riva Castleman and Sarah Suzuki.  The exhibition originated at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing  then traveled in China throughout 2010/2011 with exhibitions at the Guan Shanyue Art Museum, the Zhejiang Art Museum and the Shanghai Art Museum.
 
Detail from "The Magic Magic Book"1994, Two-volume artist book with Ricky Jay and Vija Celmins, Jane Hammond,  Justen Ladda, Glenn Ligon, Philip Taaffe, and William Wegman, Published by the Library Fellows, Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed by the Grenfell Press

"The Grenfell Press: Thirty Years of Collaboration" at Knoedler Project Space, New York

November 18 - December 30, 2010
 
Natural Curiosities, 2010, Unique paper assemblage:  extensive hand-painting in watercolor and gouache on cast paper pulp and Japanese Gampi paper with solar plate etching, 63 3/8" x 59 1/8" x 3.5", Edition Varie of 10 with Wildwood Press.

Print With Wildwood Press Debuted at IFPDA Print Fair, New York

November 4 - 7, 2010

Recent Group Exhibitions
   
'Four Ways to Blue," 2006, printed, cut and collaged papers, 10.5" x 12"

Art=Text=Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

September 4, 2012 - January 6, 2013
Celebrating the dynamic dialogue of art and language from 1960 to 2012, Art=Text=Art presents more than 100 American drawings, prints, conceptual works on paper and artists' books selected from the collection of Sally and Wynn Kramarsky.  To read more about the exhibition, please go to The Art Equals Text Online Catalog  and/or visit the Zimmerli Art Museum
 
Announcement Card for the Exhibitions

The Visible Vagina at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art and the David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY

January 28 - March 20, 2010
From the press release: "As the title of the exhibition suggests, the show is designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo - too private and intimate for public display."

To read more about the exhibitions please visit the gallery websites at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art and the David Nolan Gallery

The exhibitions are accompanied by an catalogue with an essay by Anna C. Chave, Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the Graduate Center of  the City University of New York.  The catalogue is available through Amazon
 
2009. mixed media, 17" x 18"

Eye World at Triple Candie, New York, NY

November 22, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Curators Emily Cheng and Michelle Loh invited 75 creative people from various professions --- artists, curators, writers, architects and others --- to "represent something as vast and unknowable as the world , with all its systems and structures, in the confines of a single drawer."  To read more about the exhibition visit EyeWorld Drawer Exhibition
 
"Premonition", 1990, Mixed media on Japanese paper, 24-1/4 x 38-3/4 inches

Internally Displaced:  Jane Hammond and Enrique Chagoya at the A +D Gallery

March 19 - April 18, 2009
Prints, drawings, collages, and artists' books by Jane Hammond and Enrique Chagoya were on exhibition at this Columbia College gallery.
 
Detail from "Advice"

Collaborative Vision:  The Poetic Dialogue Project at Bowling Green State University Art Gallery

October 16 - November 20, 2009
An exhibition of thirty one works of art created by collaborative teams of visual artists and poets was first shown in the Spring of 2009 at the Sidney R. Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center, then in the Summer at Indiana State University and in the Fall at Bowling Green State University.  Jane Hammond worked with the poet Barry Schwabsky on a suite of four drawings entitled "Advice."

Recent Photograhy Exhibition in Denver
 
"Chai Wan Three ," 2008. Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Solo Photography Exhibition at the MCA|Denver

August 19. 2008 - February 8, 2009
A solo exhibition of the artist's silver gelatin prints and other photographic pieces was 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

Hammond Photography Featured in Aperture
 
"Men," 2007, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Aperture Magazine

Summer 2008
The artist's photographs were featured in the summer 2008 Aperture magazine in an article by Amei Wallach entitled "Jane Hammond's Recombinant DNA."  Click here to read the article in Aperture.

Gallery Shows
 
"The Funeral,"2009, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Galeria Senda

March 12 - April 30, 2009
An exhibition of the artist's photographs was presented this year at Galeria Senda in Barcelona, Spain.
 
"Offerings,"2008, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Lemberg Gallery

October 17- December 6, 2008
An exhibition of the artist's photographs, prints, and works on paper was presented at the Lemberg Gallery in Ferndale, MI
 
"Ghat Music,"2008, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Galerie Lelong, New York, NY

September 4 - October 11, 2008
An exhibition of the artist's photographic pieces was presented by Galerie Lelong in New York.  Click here to see More photographs from the Lelong exhibiton

"Paper Work" Exhibition Catalogue Now Available
 
Front Cover of "Paper Work"


Available Now
The exhibition catalogue which accompanied the artist's traveling museum works on paper show (more below) is now available.  The 168 page catalogue with 90 color illustrations contains essays by Faye Hirsch and Nancy Princenthal and an interview with the artist by Douglas Dreishspoon.  The catalogue, which won a 2008 Association of University Presses Award, can be purchased directly from the the publisher at Penn State Press or from Amazon.com

Museum Shows
 
Detail from" All Souls (Masindi)" 2006

"Jane Hammond: Paper Work" Travels to Final Venue at the Detroit Institute of Arts

October 1 - January 9, 2009
“Jane Hammond: Paper Work” contained all manner of works on paper from 1989 through 2006 and recently travelled 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 was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Penn State Press and the Mt. Holyoke College Museum, 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 the Detroit Institute of Arts and here to read about earlier visits at the de Young Museum  The Chazen 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
 
"Charlie Delta." 2006, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Photography Exhibition at The McNay Art Musuem, San Antonio, Texas

September 12, 2007 - January 6, 2008
An exhibition of the artist's silver gelatin prints was presented at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.
 
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

Yale University Art Gallery

December 10th, 2006 - April 1st, 2007
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.
 
"Tabula Rosa," 2001, color inkjet print on handmade Japanese paper, 75" x 30" , published  by ULAE, edition of 43

"Photography and the Self: the Legacy of F. Holland Day," at the Whitney Museum of American Art

December 20, 2006 - March 11, 2007
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.
 
"Cabrito , " 2007, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

"Passionate Attitudes" at the Center for Photography at Woodstock

November 11- December 22, 2006
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.
 
"Perpetual Love," 2005, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Dartmouth College

April 4th - May 7, 2006
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.
 
"Scrapbook," 1995, print with lithography, silkscreen and collage, 55 x 46-1/2 x 10 inches, Edition of 45, Published by ULAE

The Biella Print Triennale at the Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy

March 19th -June 4, 2006
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." 

Recent Prints
 
"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 has been 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
 
Detail from "All Souls (Kirov)," 2006-2007

Greg Kucera Gallery

February 1 - March 10, 2007
An exhibition of the artist's works on paper, prints, and photographs was presented by the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA 
 
"Barberini #1," 2006, Relief print with collage, 26 1/4" x 22 1/4" , Edition of  1

Pace Prints

November 30-December 23, 2006
A one-person exhibition featuring a suite of new monoprints was presented by Pace Prints in New York. 
 
"Bee Line Trucking," 2005, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Nina Freudenheim Gallery

December 16 - January 27, 2007
An exhibition of the artist's photographs was presented by the Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
 
"Wish I May, Wish I Might ," 2006, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 87" x 110"

William Shearburn Gallery

Fall, 2006
An exhibiton of the artist's works on paper, drawings and prints was presented by the William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
 
"Face Facts," 2006, Selenium toned silver gelatin print

Galeria Vanguardria

Summer 2006
In the Summer of 2006, an exhibition of painting, works on paper and photographs was presented by Galeria Vanguardia, Bilbao, Spain
 
"Prepare for Chameleons," 2006, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 72" x 86"

Galeria Senda

Spring 2006
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
 


Cover Art for Toufic Farroukh's "Tootya"

February 2007
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.
 


Cover Art for The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces

Spring, 2007
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.
 


Publication of "The Flag Project"

Spring, 2007
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.
 
Detail from "19 American Studies," 2006, mixed media, 9" x 7"

American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Musuem

Summer 2006
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 
 


Cover Art for Censoring Culture

Spring, 2006
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.
 
Detail from The Sienese Shredder, Issue One

Contributor to Inaugural Issue of The Sienese Shredder

November, 2006
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
 


Cover Art for Drawing: A Contemporary Approach


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
 
Drawing from Fifth Grade Class, Kealakehe Primary School, Kailua-Kona, HI



 
Drawing from Third Grade Class, Kealakehe Intermediate School, Kailua-Kona, HI



 
Drawing from Fifth Grade Class, Holualoa School, Holualoa, HI

The Community Project Inaugurated on the Big Island

February -April 2006
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 constituent 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 auspices 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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