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The Artist Project: Jane Hammond

Dec 7, 2015 3 MINUTES
"Where the accident ends and the self-reflexivity we associate with modern art begins in this genre, one never knows."

Artist Jane Hammond reflects on snapshots and vernacular photography in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Jane Hammond, born in 1950, is an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and sculptor.

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A brightly colored painting with a checkerboard pattern and two ovals with figures inside of them

Jane Hammond (American, born Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1950)

Untitled (41,231,85,56,200,35), 1991

Oil on canvas; 76 × 75 in. (193 × 190.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Gift and George A. Hearn Fund, 1991 (1991.295) © Jane Hammond

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