STATEMENT and BIO

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STATEMENT

 My artwork began in 1992 as a form of abstract landscape painting. Then, I was capturing the blur and the point in space. In the thirty years since, it has assumed many different forms: painting, drawing, sculpture, books, installation, video. Always, I want to reflect the sparkly under-layer of experience. My artwork is how I enthusiastically attempt to share that reflection.

My paintings and works on paper emerge directly from a love and fascination with texture, color, shape and form. And I still love describing land: a place I saw once, a place I made up, light and palettes that themselves are an opening of sorts.

In my conceptual projects, an element of play leads to an experience of presence. I do this using everyday stuff I find, dig out of museum basements, and pair with the intangible stuff of human experience: the senses, fleeting interactions, and emotional tones. 

I like to explore what is happening in a given situation and to whom, and offer doorways to unapproachable subjects. In the form of artist books, I use visual abstraction and the book structure to open up topics like the chemical elements, ambiguity and prayer for anyone to get intimate with. The five books to date invite deep connection in a simple, lateral way.

I like inquiry, which initiates projects: What happens if you stack a block instead of speaking a thought? Where exactly is a chemical element present? If we’re in the same place at the same time, are we having the same experience? How is prayer a tool for someone who isn’t religious? What do hundreds of responses to one work of art look like? And, let’s send love to everyone we can think of, via wooden blocks, for the next thirty minutes.

The projects may be collaborative and site specific, or become an invitation to interact, or a home practice for others.

Paintings are pure abstraction and abstract celebrations of great, visual expanse.

​ I return always to pouring paint, creating a satisfying base surface, making a mark and drawing a line.  

PHOTO - ABBY ROSE

BIOGRAPHY

PHOTO - ABBY ROSE

Hannah lives and works in Detroit Michigan. She exhibits 2D, 3D and 4D work and is the author of five books about direct connection to inspiration, as well as new ways of seeing and being in the world. Hannah is a graduate of Brown University in Fine Art and Religious Studies, and has studied art at UNM Albuquerque, Sikkim India, and the Rhode Island School of Design as part of her BA.

Hannah’s artwork has been on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Currier Museum New Hampshire, the Drawing Center New York, and both the Danforth and Rose Art Museums in greater Boston, MA. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, receiving grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Hannah is currently represented by Gallery B in Castine Maine, and by Judy Goldman Fine Art Gallery (Boston MA), Barbara Singer Fine Art (Cambridge MA), and Judith Leighton Gallery, (Bluehill ME) for the life of those galleries.       

Her artist books include 
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Field Guide to Ambiguity (2024) Fifth Avenue Press. 

Contemporary Prayers to whatever works 2021 Edition, (2021) Simon &Schuster

the Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere (2019) Fifth Avenue Press

Help me [   ], do the thing (2016) Self
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Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] (2013) Self