Jane Hammond


In-Visible

2018
Oil on canvas
21 x 29 inches (two panels)
http://janehammondartist.com
Galerie Lelong


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Jane Hammond, born 1950, lives and works in New York

“Some artists make a kind of painting that is too slippery for words. I make a kind of painting that a good writer can have a field day with. There are many analogies between the way I work and the way language operates. You invent very few words in your lifetime—when you fall in love, and when you talk to animals and babies. Other than that, you use the same English that I use, that John Ashbery uses, that the guy next door uses. Yet somehow we are able to inflect language with the particularity of our being. I’m interested in language in an abstract way: usage, context, the concept of connotation and denotation. I like to explore not only how the same image can have different meanings in different settings but also how an image accrues a life over various paintings, how it bears some vestiges of meanings it had in previous paintings.”

– Jane Hammond, interview with David Lehmann, Bomb Magazine, 2002