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 His Beautiful Blackness," 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.

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In 2022-23, during her residency at Little Black Pearl in Chicago, she created the world’s largest silverpoint drawing exploring the Black narrative, Dared to Be Black and Shining (8 by 12 feet), which premiered at the Chicago Art Dept. The monumental work depicts a day in the life of Harlem, telling the story of Lammie-Hanson’s childhood hometown.

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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.

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During her working artist residency at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in Fall 2025, D. Lammie-Hanson began a new project in 14K Goldpoint on indigo, expanding her ongoing Indigo Seven Series. The work, titled The Cathedral of Alvin, is a monumental 8 ft × 12 ft drawing depicting the three suites of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Initiated during the residency, the piece captures the spiritual movement of Ailey’s choreography in luminous gold on deep indigo. The interior setting of the drawing is modeled after the St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City, evoking the grandeur and sacred architecture of the space. She is completing this ambitious work in 2026 at her studio at Hyde Park Art Center, continuing to explore the intersection of dance, divinity, and the transformative power of goldpoint.