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Lady in Waiting Painting

Michael Hanna

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 47 W x 35 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

My work focuses primarily on how I am representing my subject rather than the what. Elements which are consistent in my work contain high contrast, loose and expressive brushwork, bright colors, neutral tones, and a sense of linearity. There remains an atmospheric sense of tranquility, the passage of time, and mortality through the harmony yet tension contained within the art. I create cropped scenes with firm compositions of intimate and isolated moments meaning to be contemplative. The intimate compositions tend to portray interiors and landscapes. Interiors, especially with staircases, to me represent a sense of time away from nature. Humanity spends much time indoors in shelters either for work, leisure, or rest. In a sense, interiors make up a large portion of identity within our lives. The landscape paintings are often integrated with human-made structures, highlighting the relationship between civilization and nature. I start off my painting with a linear sketch of magenta oil paint, in order to have the subjects pop out a little more towards the audience. As the painting develops, I experiment with imaginative and expressive colors. The paintings are based on my drawings and sketches, the perspective comes off often as distorted and stylized. Some of the interiors, figures, furniture, landscapes, and structures are created from imagination, pieced together from various drawings, or based on references and then distorted, stylized, and reconfigured. There remains a sense of movement within the painting through linear marks and focused, controlled composed space. The sketchy and painterly application of the paint along with the metaphorical themes help shape the purpose of image-making in contemporary society. Through intuition and improvisation, the drawings and paintings flow freely, without restraint.

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Oil on Canvas

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47 W x 35 H x 1 D in

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Biography: Michael Athanasius Hanna is an assemblage artist, photographer, writer, and curator originally from Jersey City, New Jersey who has been creating art since the age of eight. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and has been featured in large exhibition spaces such as The Colonnade: performing arts theater in Ringgold, Georgia, the Victoria Gallery in Paterson, New Jersey, and the Atrium Gallery in Morristown, New Jersey. Notable shows in New York City include a solo exhibit in Chelsea at the Wix Gallery and a one year exhibit at Hogarth Worldwide in midtown Manhattan. Michael has been published by the University of Pennsylvania, Saatchi Art, the New York Times, Hartford Courant, Daily Record, and the Jersey Journal. The Penn Journal of Art & Sciences described his portfolio as “deeply introspective, exploring themes of isolation, contemplation, and one’s place in postmodern society...This exploration of space and structure is not just a visual exercise but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of contemporary existence”. Michael works out of his art studio located in North Georgia and has been serving as the curator and editor of Aedra Fine Arts, an art publisher and online gallery, since 2014. Artist Statement: The assemblage art contains photography mounted on canvas combined with sketches on the surface with oil pastels and written text in ink. I take my camera with me almost everywhere I go as my photography captures my everyday sensory experiences. Much like a journal, the photographs identify and crop subject matter which I find has poetic and philosophical purpose in regards to contemporary identity. After the photography becomes mounted on the canvas, I create loose sketches upon the remaining surface with oil pastels which help deconstruct the physical aspects of the subject. I then write texts with ink on the canvas with poetic passages which ambiguously describe the subject. The entire process, from capturing the subject, to deconstruction with a sketch, to philosophical scribing, entails a method steeped in a heightened sense of individualism in regards to image-making. During the process of capturing selective imagery from my daily life, experiences, and travel with photography, I build upon the image by fusing the photographs with integrative oil pastel drawings which establish new angles, perspectives, texture, and surfaces in which to engage the subject matter.

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