Lorie Hamermesh

Hamermesh is a Boston-based artist who has officially returned from a 10 year hiatus.

Hamermesh’s past work suspended layers of fabric and acetate onto which have been printed, painted, and sewn images from the art canon and contemporary fashion. Undergarments, dresses, and ecstatic naked forms float under crowns of thorns, leaves, and stars. This work was an exploration of the meeting ground of sexuality and art history.

Hamermesh’s new work consists of prints that reveal feelings of vulnerability, desire, and shame. Through the process of making these prints, she simultaneously uncovered the painful feeling of shame and released herself from it.

This work is about being silenced, but it speaks in full volume.

“I went into therapy… again. This time to hopefully crack my cement artist block and discover what was paralyzing me. My therapist suggested making work to inform my therapy, with no intention of showing or selling it. The simple prints that followed revealed feelings of vulnerability, desire, and shame. I made print after print combining watercolor, carborundum, and dry point.”
- Lorie Hamermesh