Valerie Hammond is an American artist who creates works of sensual botanical, gothic, and corporeal imagery. “I have always been drawn to places and objects that are full of mystery,” she says. She is fascinated by stories which blur reality; her work plays with the dichotomy between what is seen and the sensation it provokes. 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. The works inhabit a space she is constantly searching for, straddling the indefinable boundary between presence and absence, material and immaterial, consciousness and the unconscious.
Artist: Valerie Hammond
Date: 2011
Medium: Lithograph
Collection: Collectors Circle
Copyright Status: In Copyright
Credit: Purchased by the 2023 Collectors Circle
Accession Number: 2024.0001.0003