Dennis Hanshew

My extensive travels and the journals I keep, both written and photographic, have inspired much of my art as a painter. My early work focused on tropical still-life, landscape, and seascape as I was living/working in Hawaii and French Polynesia. Upon relocating back to California I became interested in the local landscape, specifically images of trees and orchards. More recently I have returned to the human figure and portraiture. The portraits have been of real people and, also, of puppets.

Carmel High School, class of 1966, Carmel, CA.
University of Hawaii, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1972, Honolulu, HI. 

University of Hawaii, College of Education, Professional Diploma, 1973, Honolulu, HI.
University of Hawaii, Associate in Science Legal Assistance, 1989, Honolulu, HI.

SOLO EXHIBITS - 1977 - Anthuriums And, Honolulu Advertiser Gallery (now The Contemporary Museum/Honolulu Museum of Art), Honolulu, HI. My first solo exhibit, a group of drawings, prints and paintings of tropical still-life. 1991 - Windows, Ramsay Galleries, Honolulu, HI. An exhibit of photographs taken from my travels, all having to do with shop windows, both the interior spaces and the reflected environments. 2013 - Selected Works, Judith Harding Gallery, San Francisco, CA. An exhibition of landscape and seascape paintings in various mediums that benefited Kid’s Turn, a non-profit organization designed to help the children of divorcing families.
2020 - We Will Remember These Truths, The Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA. A series of monochromatic psychological portraits and figurative paintings.

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITS - 1997 - Sea-S...