Jane Hammond: Paper Work
Noted American artist Jane Hammond creates compelling works ranging from paintings and sculpture to works on paper that have been called zany, witty, mysterious, playful, and a mixture of goofy humor with erudite intelligence. Hammond is an American master, evidenced by the institutions who collect her work including: the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Tucson Museum of Art regularly displays its important painting by Hammond and hosted her to speak to the Tucson community in 2002 when it first acquired her work.
>Jane Hammond: Paper Work showcases 55 unique paper objects including drawings, collages, printmaking, and sculptures that reveal Hammond’s creative mix of techniques and materials. What is special about Hammond’s colorful, lively works is the visual stream of mental associations and visual stimuli that emanate from her vocabulary of 276 appropriated symbols from popular culture. Her works reference board games, scrapbooks, maps, charts, books and costumes—accessible images that people of all ages and levels of experience understand. Hammond’s works bring to life a sense of storytelling through playful literary intelligence and reveal her fascination with puzzles of logic and mathematics.
This exhibition was organized by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
