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\u201cSearch Light<\/a>,\u201d an exhibition of paintings, photographs, and drawings by Jane Hammond, is at Galerie Lelong through April 22. The show features what Hammond\u00a0calls \u201cDazzle paintings,\u201d works derived from photos, painted in acrylic on a surface of mica sheets over Plexiglas. Hammond infuses these paintings\u00a0with silver, gold, copper, and palladium leaf, giving them a dense, textured\u00a0reflectivity. Her photographs, meanwhile, are digitally manipulated to present what she calls \u201cstills from a movie in my head.\u201d In a 2013 interview<\/a>, she explained,<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always worked with found information \u2026 When I talk to myself about my paintings, I always use this word jammed<\/em>. It\u2019s a reference to how each constituent element in the painting is coming from a disparate source, from another culture, from another time. Each one is freighted with the way they drew in England in the 1890s, or an Art Deco sensibility, or the way woodcuts looked in Germany in 1500, or Chinese ink drawings. And I\u2019ve always valued these inconsistencies. You know, there is a rabbit on a branch; the branch is much more detailed than the rabbit is; the branch is seen from the left; the rabbit is seen from the right. That\u2019s what I call jamming. I like the collision of the otherness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jane Hammond, Paddler<\/i>, 2016, acrylic paint on mica over Plexiglass with silver, gold, copper and palladium leaf, 37″ x 37.25″ x 3.75″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Casper<\/i>, 2015, selenium-toned silver gelatin print, 16″ x 20″<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chick<\/i>, 2016, acrylic paint on mica over Plexiglass with silver, gold, copper and palladium leaf, 44.75″ x 30.25″ x 3.75″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Funny Towel<\/i>, 2017, acrylic paint on mica over Plexiglass with silver, gold, copper and palladium leaf, 51.5″ x 31″ x 3.75″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 55 Club<\/i>, 2017, selenium-toned silver gelatin print, 16″ x 20″.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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