Valerie HAMMOND
Valerie Hammond was born in Santa Maria California. Hammond maintains a fluid artistic practice, distinguishable for her organic approach and deft interaction with different mediums. In all of her work, there is play between the material and the immaterial, the physical and the spiritual: the dichotomy between what is seen and the sensation it provokes. Her work is included in both private and public collections of the Walker Art Center, the Library of Congress, The Fine Arts Museum Houston, The Progressive Art Collection, the Fidelity Collection, the New York Public Library’s print and drawing collection, The Chazen Museum, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, The Grand Palais Museum, Paris and the Getty Museum. Hammond is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Reed Foundation and an Eisner Award from the University of California at Berkeley. She recently was awarded an Artist in Residence at the Awagami Paper Factory in Tokushima Japan. Her work continues to be exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in the United States and abroad. She teaches advanced printmaking at Columbia University and New York University. She lives in New York City.