Jane Hammond

Jane Hammond (b. 1950, Bridgeport, Connecticut) explores the interplay of chance, memory, and layered imagery, combining diverse materials. Everything comes from a different place, different time, different cultures. The form does not necessarily seek unity. Diverse elements have different kinds of reflectivity, different media, different scale relationships. For the artist, such disparities of size, scale, materiality, impart a sort of tension to the work. Hammond is interested in hauling a kind of ensemble out of tension and friction. This oscillation between unity and disunity, the artist states, that clash, is what collage does best. Life itself is kind of a collage. We create the plot.

Hammond’s Sips and Slips series appeared in the 1995 Point of Contact edition, Writing across Cultures (Vol.4, No.2), and has been featured in Point of Contact exhibits through the years.

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