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April 2010
An interest in the interiors of 1890s office buildings and tenements has started me on a series of small paintings based on objects from an old Sears catalog of the era. I've been particularly drawn to the medicines that provide cures for various female "conditions". Here are a couple of the paintings -- oil, acrylic and ink on wood. More to come...
In September 2009 I hosted a workshop at Lucky Gallery in Red Hook. We discussed the history of traditional peep boxes and the miniature. I demonstrated how to make a simple shoebox theater out of a cardboard box. The results were simple, but pretty magical.
Some images can be found here.
Exhibition at Lucky Gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn
September 12, 2009 -October 4, 2009
For Lucky Gallery, I created a series of “peephole installations” containing small paintings within shoebox theaters. The viewer approached the peepholes on the gallery wall to find a view into a miniature world. Hidden behind the wall were the various theater boxes containing many small paintings on blocks of wood. The lens of the peephole creates an illusion of depth, of a 'real' room. The scale of the paintings recall the miniature and childhood, but the scenes depicted were more sinister than nostalgic. One view imagined a scene from a murder mystery. Another showed a room devastated by a natural disaster.
Visit www.luckygallery.com for more info.
Above: Oil and Acrylic on Wood Blocks, Assorted dimensions
“PROJECTIONS”
GROUP EXHIBITION
HANNAH KASPER
HAEJAE LEE
THERESA MARCHETTA
Opening: Thursday, December 11, 2008
6-9PM
MATTER
227 FIFTH AVENUE
BROOKLYN NY 11215
TEL 718 230 1150
MATTER is pleased to present Projections, an exhibition featuring the paintings of Hannah Kasper, Haejae Lee and Theresa Marchetta.
Hannah Kasper's dreamlike paintings of vacant interiors create a stage upon which viewers can take the visual clues provided to project the narratives they wish. They are quiet episodes that could be taken from the pages of a mystery or from scenes of a film after the actors have left the set. Haejae Lee's romantically rendered rooms of the American West are a physical manifestation of the longing for a perfect and absolute home - they simultaneously evoke a personal space of comfort and a feeling of claustrophobia and isolation. For Theresa Marchetta, the physicality of paint is directly linked to her subject matter. Her fantastically colorful depictions of caves bring to life a landscape that is naturally completely dark and so in a sense invisible until artificial light is introduced. Like a tourist in a cave, the viewer approaches the painting and experiences an invented experience.
Each artist depicts mysterious spaces and presents the possibility of mentally inhabiting and projecting one's thoughts onto them, like an image from a film onto a screen.
Group Exhibition
"This Modern World"
General Electric World Headquarters
Fairfield, Connecticut
Through October 17, 2008
This show was a survey exhibition of contemporary representations of architecture in art,
curated by Paddy Johnson, the editor of Art Fag City. Click here for her essay on the show.
Solo Exhibition
galleriBOX
Kaupvangstraeti 10
600 Akureyri
Iceland
June 21–29, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 2008
June 2008
Gil-Society Guest Studio Residency
Akureyri, Iceland
My work has been included in a new web-based art and literary magazine called Nucleus.
Group Exhibition
“Dreamer of Pictures”
March 15–April 28, 2008
Subdivision
48-18 Vernon Blvd.
Long Island City, NY
subdivisionart.com
All works on this website are for sale unless otherwise indicated.
For inquiries please contact: hannah at hannahkasper dot com
