D. Lammie-Hanson, a self-taught contemporary artist from Harlem, now based in Chicago, specializes in large metalpoint drawings that capture the human spirit. In 2017, during a self-directed residency in Barcelona, she honed her skills in the metalpoint technique, using thin metal wires on dark surfaces, a method dating back to the Renaissance.

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One of her notable works from this period, "A Portrait of a Beautiful Black Man," was exhibited in the “Louisiana Contemporary” exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Her achievements include a solo show at the GW Carver Interpretive Museum in Dothan, Alabama, and winning the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series New Orleans Regional, which led to her participation in Scope Art during Art Basel Miami. For the NOLA tricentennial, Lammie-Hanson created 22 silverpoints, which were highlighted in the Times-Picayune and the book "300 for 300." She also produced 25 contemporary silverpoint portraits for the Essence Music Festival’s 25th anniversary, sponsored by Arts New Orleans.

 

In 2021, she joined the Hyde Park Art Center's prestigious Center Program, producing four large silverpoints, each 4 feet by 4 feet. One piece, "Dear Beautiful Black Boy," was acquired by the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana, marking her as the first living artist in their permanent collection.

In 2022, as the artist in residence at Little Black Pearl in Chicago, she created the world's largest silverpoint drawing, "Dared to Be Black and Shining" (8 by 12 feet), which premiered at the Chicago Art Dept.

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​In April 2024, Lammie-Hanson’s first goldpoint piece, Exhilaration, was chosen for "The Common Threads that Bind Us" exhibit with Knowhere Art Gallery (Martha’s Vineyard) at the “Personal Structures” exhibition during the 60th Venice Biennale in Italy. Her second metalpoint series, Indigo Seven: Gilded Agility, which features goldpoint renderings of professional dancers' musculature on indigo substrates, debuted at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago in June 2024.