Diane Hanson
Diane Hanson, originally from West Concord, MN, graduated from the Minnesota Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, MN. She earned a BFA in painting from Boston University School for the Arts in Boston, MA and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Previous awards include Best in Show for Forum 35’s 2010 Art Melt, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Fulbright Grant (Miguel Viciguerra Grant) and Travel Grant to Italy, Artist Assistance Fellowship Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Leo Chestler Contemporary Visual Arts Award, a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and a residency at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Ms. Hanson was a juried artist at the ArtCenter/ South Florida in Miami Beach from 2004-2006 and a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex from 2014-2015. Ms. Hanson currently lives and works in Miami, FL.
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Reconstructing Reality, a Statement by the Artist
The effort to control and organize the world around us is an endless endeavor. The artwork in this exhibition explores the desire to make sense of our lives, surroundings, and experiences through reconstructed versions of reality. Each artwork starts with a title or idea, and the images develop like a conversation, allowing for reflections, connections, and questions to emerge.
Our expectations are inventions, based on real past experiences, beliefs, or ideas on how we think life should be. Memories are consciously edited or selected without intention, shaping our world and perspectives by what we focus on. The fragmentation of space and memory is assembled like a visual puzzle with form, shape, and color dictating the resulting compositions. The act of viewing these works reverses this process as it involves taking apart and decoding the images to reveal the subject.