Hannah Jeremiah

These small drawings, created with pen on paper, reflect a process of layering images from my surroundings. I intentionally work without a plan because this allows memories and dynamics that exist below my conscious awareness to become articulated on the page. Drawing is a habit, almost a compulsion, that comes from my childhood. It allows me to process aspects of my reality that have no words or can’t easily be put into words. The continued practice of drawing allows me to access childlike states of being and translate the emotional realities of my past selves onto the page.
Many of these works reflect the felt experience of dissociated memories flooding back in the form of images with no words, or body sensations that can’t easily be named. The people in these drawings often have their mouths open and look like they are in a state of shock. I drew people this way because that was how to felt in those years. Bodies also became articulated in the way I perceived my own - disconnected and in parts, limbs floating off into the ether, objects disrupting the presence of the figure as if assaulting the body. The vessels feel as though they represent a human body - disrupted and drawn in disparate parts, never drawn completely whole. A...

2018
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Square One Yoga, Oakland, CA

2016
BFA in Fiber, Art History Minor, Magna Cum Laude, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD

2021
Art for The Holidays, Artventures NWA, Fayetteville, AR
Women Artists Showcase, The Power Conference, Montgomery County, MD (Online)
Stasis & Change, Artventures NWA, Fayetteville, AR
Call & Response Round 13 Online Exhibition, Shoebox Arts, Los Angelos, CA (Online)
Adrift, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
The March Show, The Paseo Arts & Creativity Center, Oklahoma City, OK

2020
Her Voice, District Galleries, Fort Smith, AR
Drawings, Center for Art & Education, Van Buren, AR (Solo)
Maximum Exposure, Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Fort Smith, AR

Small Works On Paper Exhibit, Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, AR

2019
inspi(HER) Exhibition, Amiee Thompson Gallery and Wellness Center, Benton, AR

2019
North American Review Open Space of Democracy Poster Exhibit, Cedar Falls, IA

2018
Hungry Art Show, Shock Boxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA

2017
Artists For Truth, Space Camp, Baltimore, MD

2016
Hold, Brown Center, MICA, Baltimore, MD (Solo)
Stitched Queer Baltimore, Gateway Arts Center, Brentwood, MD
Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Prior Attachments, Main Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Fringe Field, Middendorf Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Bound, Gateway Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD (Solo)

201...