Jane Hammond | Photographs

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"The photographs grew out of the scrapbooks, also. I began collecting photos to put in them, and quickly became obsessed with all the different depictions of the same thing. Soon, I had hundreds of snowmen pictures. I began collecting many more snapshots, other peoples pictures, and soon borrowed lots of my family's own pictures. I began to think about them and in my mind's eye I saw pictures, photographs with the appearance of photographs, that I didn't actually possess. As you might have a dream which combines several otherwise incompatible aspects of your waking life, I saw photographs that were combinatorial and wove together things from different times and spaces.

I set out to make these photographs which were in my head. I sought the advice of many technical experts and created a way to make silver gelatin prints "actual photographs" of something that never happened."
—Jane Hammond, 2007



BEE LINE TRUCKING, 2005
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




BLESSING, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




CONFORMATION POINTS, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




DOLL BABY DOLL, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5,
$3,500. framed




FACE FACTS, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




LA UNICA, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




LITTLE COUNTRY DOCTOR, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5,
$3,500. framed





LONGFELLOW, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed





MADHIA (TUNISIAN MEN HONOR MY MOTHER AND HER POPPIES, 2005
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




MEN AND WOMEN, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




NEAR MOON BEACH, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




OCTOBER FIRST (MOM'S BIRTHDAY), 2005
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




RELEASE AT 404, 2005
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




SWAN LAKE, 2005
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed




ZWEI FRAUEN MIT STREIFEN, 2006
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
14 x 11 inches, Edition of 5
$3,500. framed

"Painting is a cross between high philosophy and cement work. My biggest way of relating to this concept of time and labor is that it is an entry point for reaching the unconscious. The layers of paint have more to do with duration than texture. I see it as a function of time, like the idea of chanting. Certain things can begin to happen because you're with the painting for long periods of time." —Jane Hammond



Other Available Work by Hammond: Paintings



The works on paper by Hammond are a complex combination of acrylic and gouache paint, graphite drawing, rubber stampings, color copier transfers, transfers from magazine illustrations and fruit labels, linoleum block printings, and ink drawings. Hammond derives her images from a multitude of interests including phrenology, astrology, knot diagrams, magic tricks, medical and technical illustrations and shadow puppets to name just a few. The combination of these disparate images depicted in such a variety of media gives Hammond's works on rice paper a wonderfully rich feel.

The artist's unique works on paper begin with stacks of various cutouts, Xeroxes and stampings from which she chooses appealing images to start gluing and layering. As she works, all the seemingly dissimilar elements begin to trigger associations with other images or ideas for the artist, which she continues to develop using the transfers, prints, paint and ink. This deliberate degree of suggestion carries through in her paintings as well, allowing the viewer opportunity to connect these images by drawing on their own interests and associations. Hammond uses a hermetic lexicon of messages and images, investing her paintings with complicated but unspecific meanings.

Since Hammond's last solo exhibition in New York and Seattle, she has had solo exhibitions of her work in galleries in Sweden, Spain, Detroit and Seattle. Her museum exhibition Jane Hammond: The Ashbery Collaboration traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Madison Art Center, WI; Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX; and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI from 2001 to 2003. The Whitney Museum of American Art presented a solo exhibition of her mural painting Backstage at the Whitney Altria in 2002, and the Weatherspoon Art Gallery of the University of North Carolina organized a solo exhibition of her paintings in 2003.

In 2004, she was an artist-in-residence at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York City. Hammond's New York representative is Galerie Lelong, where she had a one-person exhibition of paintings in the spring of 2005. A forthcoming survey of her works on paper is being organized by Mount Holyoke College Art Museum for 2006 and will then travel to the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco, Harwood Museum in New Mexico, and others.

Other Available Work by Hammond: Prints