Gallery - 2008
Photo Descriptions:*"Waterfall"
Pastel on paper; framed; for sale; original or print on archival paper
This is the image used on the business card of Grace's mother, Leisa A. Hammett. At the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's summer 2008 three-artist's with autism show, Grace told artist and autism-physician onlooker, Dr. Susan McGrew, MD, that this image was a "waterfall." Grace was "full of herself" that evening. Giddy, using her new talk-computer, she repeatedly pushed the button: "I like purple" in her interactions with admirers.
*"Purple Face" I
Mixed media; framed; for sale
2008 saw the return of Grace's seeming attempts at portraiture. She was having increased benign myoclonic seizure activity at this time. The image suggests a bandaged head. The additional mystery is that she cannot communicate via words (but through art?) the pain she may feel physically--? Or, is the image suggesting knowledge of her difference from typical society?
*Untitled (Purple Face II)
Pastel on paper; framed; for sale
**Untitled (Black & Purple)
Mixed media
Nicolette Bainbridge Brigham, Ph.D., and Wendy Stone, Ph.D., with GraceArt
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center purchased and presented Dr. Stone a framed GraceArt original for her 22 years of service with Vanderbilt and its' Treatment Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD).
Untitled (Pink Pastel)
Pastel on paper; sold
See entry above. Untitled (Red & Brown)
Paint on board; framed; for sale
Untitled (Red & Black)
Mixed media on paper; sold
This framed piece was shown and sold at Shimai Pottery and Gifts at the famed Loveless Motel and Cafe. **The first three asterisk-highlighted images plus, "Face," in Gallery 2006, provided a purple montage of GraceArt for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center summer 2008 three-autism artist's show.
**Hannah Maxwell Rowell was Grace's teacher during 2008, except for several summer sessions with artist/teacher Yvette Renee Parish. Yvette worked with Grace during the prolific year of 2006. Untitled (Purple & Black), here, was created during one of several sessions with Yvette, summer of 2008.
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