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February Issue 2003
Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Features Works by Jane Hammond
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in Greensboro, NC, is presenting the exhibition, Jane Hammond: Falk Visiting Artist, which will be on view through Mar. 9, 2003.
Hammond is well known for paintings and drawings
filled with signs and images of all kinds. Collected from a variety
of sources -biology, mathematics, popular culture, and children's
stories, to name a few - she has compiled a system of 276 symbols
and employs them in her work to address the relationship between
language, perception, memory, and judgment.
For her Weatherspoon exhibition, Hammond has created a new body
of work that incorporates her personal lexicon. Included are four
large paintings on wood which resemble opened, three-ring binders.
On the pages, Hammond links various images with phonetic instructions
to "spell" puzzle answers that are cued by the title.
These rebus-like works are not only reminiscent of the classic
television game show Concentration, but also suggest other
relationships.
In 1994, Hammond was selected to participate in the Weatherspoon's
thirtieth annual Art On Paper exhibition in 1994. Her work,
Tricky Finger, 1993, was acquired from the exhibition and
is now part of the museum's Dillard Collection. The piece is a
collage on rice paper and shares Hammond's adopted pictorial language.
It will be on view later this winter in Women Artists from
the Permanent Collection, which opens Mar. 2, 2003.
For more info check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call 336/334-5770 or on the web at (www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu).
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