Hannah Dean

I paint in the ala prima fashion, meaning with efficient and visible brushwork. My resources are my own photos or memories, friends’ social media posts, and a variety of digital resources. These paintings touch on shared collective experience such as internet use and visual cultural touchstones like the western art history canon or the Muppets. Desire plays a role as I crave a more physical, unplugged (cliché but true) experience in my own life and family life as I raise a child. In this body of work I fully give in to cliché, embracing sentimentality, however distorted, as a means of genuine expression.

MFA TTU. Painting
MAE. TTU
BAE. LCU.

2024
Curator (with Christina Rees) $#%& Show @5&J @CASP, Lubbock, TX
2023
Solo exhibition “everything and oranges” Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX
Curator (with Christina Rees) $#%& Show @5&J @CASP, Lubbock, TX

2022
There is no I in Cactus, Texas Tech Museum of Art, Lubbock, TX

Solo Exhibition, Black Bear Coffee Co., Cloudcroft, NM

Curator, Stuff I Made Today @5&J @CASP, Lubbock, TX

2021
Built By Pictures, Stayhomegallery Instagram Exhibition

Curator, Stuff I Made Today @5&J @CASP, Lubbock, TX

Portraits: Impressions of Our Times (Curated by Linda Cullum) LHUCA, Lubbock, TX

2020

CAMP Fundraiser, Plainview, TX

LCU Alumni Exhibition, Lubbock, TX

2019

CASPfest 2019, Juried Exhibition (juror: Christina Rees)

Open Space, National Juried Exhibition. ICOSA Art Collective: Austin, TX

Assistance League Houston Celebrates Texas Art (juror: Jennie Goldstein, assistant curator Whitney NY)

2018

Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX (juror: Christina Rees)

Juried Exhibition, Overland Park, KS

33rd Annual International Exhibition, UT Tyler, TX

2017

TX 17 Biennial , Austin, TX (Juror: Leslie Moody Castro)

$&@# Show, Lubbock, TX (Curator)

2016

60th Anniversary Art Faculty Exhibition LCU, CAA Galler...