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Artist |
Hammond, Jane |
Object Name |
Monotype |
Title |
Havasupai #4 |
Date |
2006 |
Medium |
Relief print with collage and hand painting |
Edition |
1/1 |
Dimensions |
25 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. (65.4 x 51.4 cm) |
Accession Number |
5336.0.0 |
Credit line |
Acquired from Pace Prints |
About This Work |
Jane Hammond utilizes a variety of mixed media elements including photographs, hand painting, and collage to create monotypes that resemble intricate, botanical illustrations. Botany was formative to Hammond's development as an artist from childhood when her grandmother, an avid gardener, taught her the Latin names of one hundred different plants. This experience led to an encyclopedic, scientific knowledge of flowers and to an artistic process that she has described as a reworking of visual information, or "recombinant DNA." The vessels in her botanical still lifes are equally important as the floral elements due to the influence of her early training as a ceramicist at Arizona State University, although Hammond did not pursue the medium. In this case, the title Havasupi #4 most likely refers to the pattern on the vase, which is derived from a textile motif that appears on woven water bottles in the Havasupai culture, an indigenous people that has lived for a thousand years in a remote village below the rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. |
Legal Status |
The artist or artist's estate retains all copyrights to their work. |