Artist Talk and Studio Visit with D. Lammie-Hanson

D. Lammie-Hanson is a self-taught contemporary artist from Harlem, now based in Chicago, whose large-scale metalpoint drawings celebrate Black identity, movement, and the human spirit. During a self-directed residency in Barcelona in 2017, she deepened her exploration of silverpoint and goldpoint on dark surfaces, reinterpreting a Renaissance technique through a contemporary lens.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Scope Art during Art Basel Miami, and the Personal Structures exhibition at the 60th Venice Biennale in Italy. In 2024, her goldpoint work Exhilaration debuted in Venice, followed by her solo exhibition Indigo Seven: Gilded Agility at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science.

A 2021 participant in the Hyde Park Art Center’s Center Program, Lammie-Hanson created Dear Beautiful Black Boy, acquired by the Hilliard Art Museum, making her the first living artist represented in its permanent collection. During her 2022–23 residency at Little Black Pearl, she completed Dared to Be Black and Shining (8 × 12 ft), believed to be the world’s largest silverpoint drawing exploring the Black narrative.

In 2025, while serving as a Working Artist-in-Residence at Northeastern Illinois University, she began The Cathedral of Alvin, a monumental 8 × 12 ft 14K goldpoint drawing inspired by the three suites of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Completed at her Hyde Park Art Center studio in 2026, the work continues her exploration of dance, spirituality, and the transformative power of goldpoint.