Chocolate Cosmos, String of Pearls presents the dazzling mixed-media botanical collages of New York artist Jane Hammond. Alongside these collages, made over the last decade, the book features a foreword by gallerist John Berggruen, an extended essay by the award-winning biographer and historian Jenny Uglow and a new text by Hammond herself.
These illuminate more than fifty of Hammond’s meticulous and spectacular compositions of flowers, grasses, seaweed, seeds, insects, birds and mammals of all description, coexisting in a blend of harmony and unsettling tension. Each publication in the Hurtwood Artist & Gallery Series presents new, recent and selected works by a single artist working nationally and internationally today. Along with a foreword by an established art world professional, the series features specially commissioned essays and interviews with the artist by leading writers, art historians and curators, offering in- depth insight. Central to each publication are the exhibitions and galleries that help to spotlight some of the most engaging artists of today.
Chocolate Cosmos, String of Pearls is published in association with Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
Artist
Jane Hammond is an American artist who has shown regularly since the late 1980s. She has had twenty-one solo exhibitions in New York City, as well as in Paris, London, Stockholm, Barcelona, Bilbao, Amsterdam and Milan. She has also shown with galleries in Detroit, Seattle, Chicago, Kansas City, Buffalo, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She has a diverse practice and her twenty-nine solo museum exhibitions in the USA have comprised painting, works on paper, artist books, photography and sculpture. Hammond lives and works in New York City. She is represented there and in Paris by Galerie Lelong. She isrepresented in San Francisco by Berggruen Gallery and in London by Lyndsey Ingram Gallery.
Details
Editors: Anneka French
Designed by: Alice Daisy Pomfret
Contributors: John Berggruen, Jane Hammond, Jenny Uglow
Size: 285 x 230 mm portrait
124 pages featuring 50 illustrations (colour)
Binding: Hardback
Printed in the UK
Published by Hurtwood in association with Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
Anneka French 