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Education

2007 University of Washington – Seattle, Masters Degree in Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
2003 University of Wisconsin – Madison, Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, Madison, WI
1999 Pratt Institute, Associates Degree with Honors – Illustration major, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Open Windows and Doors, Hospice Savannah, Savannah, GA
2007 Introducing – Amanda Hanlon, Gallery I M A, Seattle, WA
2007 Looking Back, Verve, Seattle, WA
2005 Amusement, Hue Art Gallery, Madison, WI

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 The Art House, Atlanta, GA
2010 2D * 2.5D * 3D, Kobo Gallery, Savannah, GA
2010 Seven, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Savannah, GA
2010 Faculty Drawing Exhibition, Studioplex – Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
2010 Faculty Drawing Exhibition, Anderson Hall – Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2010 Endless Love, Kobo Gallery, Savannah, GA
2009 900 Square Feet, Kobo Gallery, Savannah, GA
2009 2009 Art Faculty Exhibition, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA
2009 Faculty Drawing Exhibition, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2008 Selected Works, Sev Shoon Art Center, Seattle, WA
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Works in Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Art in Good Taste, Appleton Art Center, Appleton, WI
2004 Madison Area Open Art Studio Event, Art Beat Gallery, Madison, WI
2004 This is What You Want, Bettcher Gallery, Miami, FL
2004 Open Spectrum, Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, VT
2004 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Kenosha, WI
2003 The Schlitznitz, 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

Teaching Experience

2008 – 2010 Savannah College of Art and Design, Adjunct Faculty – Foundations Department, Savannah, GA
Classes Taught: 2-D Design, Beginning Drawing
2009 – 2010 Armstrong Atlantic State University, Adjunct Faculty – Art Music and Theater Department, Savannah, GA
Classes Taught: Basic Printmaking, Beginning Drawing, Drawing II, Beginning Painting
2006 – 2007 University of Washington, Instructor – Painting and Drawing Department, Seattle, WA
Classes Taught: Beginning Drawing

Recognition

2005 Davis Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2003 Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1999 Honorable mention, AOS Student Show Invitation Competition, New York, NY
1997 Awarded Presidential Merit Scholarship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Bibliography

Hersh, Allison “Art Soul: Exhibit Demonstrates Three Approaches to Raw Material” Savannah Morning News, Sept. 3, 2010
Rodgers, Patrick “A Kick-Start for Your Art”, Connect Savannah, August 18-24 2010
Neudeck, Jan “Artist in America”, Madison Magazine, August 2004

Professional Affiliations

2010 – Present   The Art House, Atlanta, GA, Representation
2007 – Present   College Art Association
2009 – 2010   Kobo Gallery Co-Op Member, Savannah, GA

Statement

My work utilizes architectural spaces and objects to explore individual and collective memory. I respond to these spaces through direct observation, through photographs (found or personally taken), and/or from scale models I create from the space. The artistic method I employ for these responses ranges from paint to printmaking and occasionally sculpture.

The spaces I select as sources for my work are often personal. They are places in which I have physically lived, worked, seen (photographed), or experienced on some level. Occasionally I source structures derived from found photographs. Both the personal and found sources initially peak my interest formally, through light, color, or potential for narrative.

To assist my memory in the small details of places I have experienced, I keep objects, “mementos”, of these places. Occasionally these mementoes find a place at the forefront of my work, helping me to understand a time, provide scale, or accompany an interior space.

In this practice I am most interested in transformation. I enjoy beginning with a space, taking apart its elements, understanding what it is about that space I find interesting, and then bringing the elements back together. At times, I return to my memory of a space repeatedly. Each time I make an effort to shift my perspective of that place, or request an alternative viewpoint outside of myself, in order to see the space as if I were experiencing it for the first time. Through this process I can find distance between myself and the space and uncover a response that stands separate from its beginning with only a mere nod to its roots.

- Amanda Hanlon, 2009