Monotypes

Working in series since the 1980s, Harmony Hammond’s monotypes represent an extension of her interest in materials and process to push the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Viewing the press as a collaborator, Hammond works in a “state of peripheral control,” or intentional unpredictability, allowing the pressure of the press to move the ink and activate the surface. By applying layers of wet-into-wet ink printed on handmade paper, she imbues these works with a sculptural quality and textured surface that recalls that of patinated metal, skin, and leather.