David Hanner

David Hanner, based in Buffalo, NY, USA.

Before discovering my love and passion for painting, David had established a career as a musician and composer of New Music.
In addition to his upbringing in Germany, his activities as a freelance composer and teacher allowed him to live and work in Austria, Cyprus, and the United States.

Since Hanner started to shift his focus to becoming a painter, his works have been exhibited and awarded internationally.

What inspires me as an artist is the creative process itself and the possibilities and challenges that lie within, guided by experimentation and aesthetic values.

As a composer, I always felt content with the metaphor of placing the sound on a canvas of silence.

Now, as a painter, I am intrigued by the idea that the creative process could reveal itself if I only listened.

Essential to me, as a visual artist and a former composer of New Music, is to engage in a daring 'Dance of the Senses' during which I am trying to transplant my personal and artistic sense of form and my instinct and sensibility of balance and color to my paintings.

I was always intrigued by the notion of engaging in a dialog with a consciousness waiting to show itself, not unlike a photographic negative that slowly develops until the image emerges.
For this to happen, I feel the need to unburden myself from the urge to depict or tell a story but instead walk a thin line between metaphor and idea.

Or, in other words, I would like to set the right conditions for a painting to 'speak' with an authentic voice rather than to depict an image or tell a story. – This would be for the beholder to create, not for me.

My art could not evolve without the stillness I fi...

Contemporary Art Room Gallery
2021 ALL Planet Earth Art Painting/Drawing Exhibition (smugmug.com)


Visual Artists Association / INTERNATIONAL ONLINE ART EXHIBITION

Art Certificate / Concours d'Art International



Contemporary Art Room Gallery / 'ABSTRACT' ART EXHIBITION '


Grey Cube Gallery / 'COLORS' / Current Show (greycubegallery.com)