Jane Hammond (b. 1950, Bridgeport, CT) received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1972. She earned her MFA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1977. A traveling exhibition of Hammond’s paper works was organized in 2006 by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and continued through 2008. Her large-scale installation
Fallen, part of the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2008); the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (2009); and the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia (2010). Solo exhibitions have recently been held at A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago (2009); the Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida (2009); the Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama, Birmingham (2009); Galeria Senda, Barcelona (2009); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2008-2009); Galerie Lelong, Paris (2010); FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2011); Galerie Lelong, New York (2008, 2011); and Pace Prints, New York (2010, 2013). Her most recent group exhibitions have been held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2008); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2009); the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (2009); The Jewish Museum, New York (2010); the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York (2011); the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2011, 2012); the Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (2012); and The Art Institute of Chicago (2012). Her work can be found in the public collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Hammond lives and works in New York City. More information about her work can be found at
www.janehammondartist.com.
Raphael Rubinstein (b. 1955, Lawrence, KS) is a poet and art critic whose books include Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002 (Hard Press Editions) and The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces (Make Now). In 2006 he edited the anthology Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice (Hard Press Editions). His book of micro-narratives In Search of the Miraculous: 50 Episodes from the Annals of Contemporary Art has been translated into French (Editions Grèges). From 1997 to 2007 he was a senior editor at Art in America, where he continues to be a contributing editor. He is currently a Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston, Texas. In 2002 the French government presented him with the award of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2010 his blog The Silo won a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation arts writer grant. Raphael lives and works in New York City.
