The Artist Project: Jane Hammond

Artist Jane Hammond reflects on snapshots and vernacular photography in this episode of The Artist Project.

December 7, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In The Artist Project, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"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.

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