Bliss - Assemblage Artwork

Biography: Michael Athanasius Hanna (born 1983) is a photographer, assemblagist, filmmaker, writer, and publisher originally from Jersey City, New Jersey who has been creating art since the age of eight. His exhibitions include features across the United States and internationally in Europe. The works of Michael Hanna typically use arthouse documentary methods of capturing unfamiliar and enchanted sensory experiences through integrative and interdisciplinary techniques and are often infused with the use of philosophical as well as poetic texts. Michael has been published by The London Group, Saatchi Art, The New York Times, Hartford Courant, Daily Record, and The Jersey Journal. He works out of his art studio located in the Jersey Shore and has been serving as the Editor & Curator of Point Pleasant Publishing since 2014. As a writer and publisher, Michael has been consistently complimented on his detailed yet direct approach to art writing, largely devoid of plastic language. Such a style of critical analysis has been covered in three publications under Point Pleasant Publishing: The Artist Feature Catalogue, Point Pleasant Journal, and Shoreline Voice. The catalogue features curatorial essays on established artists from around the world while the journal focuses on contemporary art discourse and philosophy, Shoreline Voice is a periodical spotlight on a notable artist. Michael’s purpose as a publisher remains to provide critical commentary and content on the newest contemporary art available by publishing on multiple formats including on the Point Pleasant website, Substack, Artwork Archive, and in linen wrap hardcover book editions.