What a lovely post Grace. I have admired Valerie’s work for a while now. It reminds me of the work of Kiki Smith, who is one of my all time greatest inspirations. I read somewhere that the two artists are friends?
the hands in the first image are beautiful – I’d love to have a print of that in my home. Do you know what medium this is?
Lauren said:
September 14th, 2008 - 2:13 pm
{Heather} Kiki and Valerie are very close friends. In fact, they teach a bunch of classes together. I was lucky enough to be in one of them. Obviously this post made me positively giddy. Valerie’s work is even more wonderful in person, and she herself is a gem.
{san smith} It’s a relief printed lithograph. Valerie has been making originals with plants from her house upstate (on the garson baker site, the green on offwhite paper), and then using that to make a photo litho, printing in light ink on that amazing kozo paper.
connie willard said:
September 16th, 2008 - 1:48 pm
These are amazing images. I have seen the works in person and they are even more illusive and eerily beautiful then. I look forward to hearing more from Valerie Hammond
Helen Petrea Hammond said:
August 15th, 2009 - 2:50 am
I have always been an admirer of Valerie’s beautiful work. She is truly a very talented artist.
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