Jane Hammond
American, born 1950
Double Blind
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Jane Hammond
American, born 19501993
Double Blind
Jane Hammond American, born 1950 →collagedrawings (visual works)
Date
1993
Medium
Collage composed of color photocopies and linocuts, with solvent-transfered color-photo-copied images, graphite and crayon frottage from linocuts, gouache and acrylic paint, on pieced cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
90.5 × 82.4 cm (35 11/16 × 32 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Kaye and Howard Haas
From the mid-1980s until recently, Jane Hammond selected her imagery from a picture file of some 276 clippings, assembled throughout her life, and dispersed intuitively over the surfaces of paper and canvas. Always interested in collecting data and classification—as a child she famously mapped and classified a 100-square-foot section of forest floor behind her house—Hammond has developed a visual syntax that owes much to the poetic free-association typical of Surrealist artists. This drawing typifies her complex process of building a picture in layers, from stains left by transfers, to applied-color photocopies.
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