Over the last few years Alan Corkery Hahn has created a rather large body of work. Hahn understands that the meaning of each piece is not limited to that which he intends, but it is hyperbolic to suppose that nothing of Hahn's original intention gets through. The objects that he creates are formed with a purpose that guides interpretation. A variety of Hahn's work has dealt with the following ideas, either individually or in combination: text and its meanings, the primacy of touch, authorship/ownership and art as a commodity, Wabi-sabi and the aesthetics of imperfection, personal identity, gender roles and subjectivity. The thread that connects it all, however, is the persistence of touch, the permanence of our marks and the inviolate nature of mortality. The final products are obscure and delicate monuments memorializing insignificant victories in the futile struggle against impermanence and the march of time. They point out that our struggles to leave a mark sometimes leave nothing but marks of our struggle.
left: Women's Shoes, right: Men's Shoes
EDUCATION: Master of Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Bachelor of Fine Arts, California State University, Chico, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Berozkina Gallery, Kirkland, WA Secular Rituals, CSU Student Gallery, Chico, CA Play things, GAS Gallery, Chico, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: KIAF, International Art Show, Pusan, Korea Berozkina Gallery, Kirkland, WA Group Show, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA GAS Gallery, Chico, CA 3rd Floor Gallery, Chico, CA Taylor Gallery, Chico, CA
AWARDS: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Juror's Award 3rd Floor Gallery, Critic's Choice Award Taylor Gallery, Dean's Award
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES: Guest Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Lecture, Western Washington University, WA
COLLECTIONS: University of Washington, Seattle, WA Nordstrom, Seattle, WA Kyung-Il Corp., Seattle, WA
Belinda Hanson
Belinda Hanson lives and works in the mountains of Northern California, where the Sacramento River flows through the canyons just below Mount Shasta. This confluence of geography, mountain and river, affects her aesthetic sensibilities. Hanson's sculpture and sculptural installations are raw, even rugged, yet the end results are surprisingly delicate, sometimes poetic.
"Belinda Hanson's sculptures and sculptural installations immediately place us in another world. Magical and strange, and also strangely familiar… Part of a long history of modernist sculpture of assemblage and found materials (think Duchamp, Schwitters, and the Surrealists), and part of a growing trajectory of contemporary interventions using minimalist forms to explore corporeal sensation and body politics (Think Annette Messager, Lygia Clark, and Kiki Smith), Hanson's work asks us to contemplate the boundary between human and inhuman, nature and artifice, sameness and difference—and feel wonder."—Jeannene Przyblyski, art historian and curator, San Francisco
left: Self Portrait of a Motelier; center: Hand Collecting Soap; right: Soap Scream
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts 2011 Sculpture, California State University, Chico
Master in Art 2001 Sculpture /Painting, California State University, Chico, with honors
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1994 Painting/Sculpture, Southern Oregon University, with honors
Bachelor of Science 1975 Organismal and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, with honors
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Sift . . .Shift, Installation, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, University Art Gallery, CSUChico, CA
2010 Traces, Installation, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA
2007 Transparent Longings, Installation, Humanities Center Gallery, Chico, CA
2006 Sirenidae, Installation, Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento Community College, CA
2004 Schmooing and Related Events, Installation, Gallery 319, Mt. Shasta, CA
2003 More Tape Tails, Installation, College of the Siskiyous Main Gallery, Weed, CA
2003 Tape Stories, Installation, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
2002 Tail of the Tape, Installation, Stevenson Union Gallery, Southern Oregon University, OR
2002 Belinda Hanson-Encaustic Paintings, Klamath Falls-Art Extravaganza, OR
2001 Tail of the Tape, Installation, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Contemporary Woman 6, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA, Juror: JoAnne Northrup, Juror’s Award
2012 The Living Show, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA, Juror: Bill Warem
2011 California Sculpture SLAM, San Louis Obispo Museum of Art, San Louis Obispo, CA, Juror: Charles Arnoldi
2011 56th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Sculpture, University Art Gallery, CSUChico, CA, Juror: Kevin B. Chen, Program Director for Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 Kindred Spirits, Sculpture, Joint CSUC and Butte College Faculty Show, Butte College Gallery, Chico, CA
2011 Annual Member's Invitational, Sculpture, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
2010 California Open Exhibition, Sculpture, TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Juror: Karen Moss, Currator Orange County Museum of Art, Catalogue
2010 Annual Member's Invitational, Sculpture, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
2009 Encaustic-Contemporary Art in An Ancient Medium, Installation, Old City Hall Gallery, Redding, CA
2009 Self Portrait Show, Juried, Sculpture, Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA
2008 Duchamp Exhibit, Invitational, Sculpture, Laxon Gallery, Chico, CA
2008 Projecting Peace, Invitational, Poem and Projection Piece, Chico, CA
2007 Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Painting, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2007 Art from the Heart, Painting, San Francisco, CA
2006 Belinda Hanson, Painting and Sculpture, Featured Artist, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR
2006 West Coast Encaustic Artist's Exhibition, Painting, O'Hanlon Gallery, Marin, CA
2005 National Open Exhibition, Sculpture, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, Juror: Scott Canty
2005 Members Annual Exhibit, Painting, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2005 AIR Gallery Exhibit, Painting, New York City, NY
2005 Material Instinct, Painting, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, Juror: Ann Wolfe, Assistant Curator San Jose Museum of Art
2005 Hanson Howard Gallery Annual Invitational, Painting, Ashland, OR
2004BACA Annual National Juried Exhibition, Sculpture, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Juror: Heidi Zuckermen Jacobson, Curator MATRIX, UC Berkeley Art Museum
2004 Redding Museum Annual Juried Show, 1st Place Sculpture, Redding, CA
2004 Hanson Howard Gallery Annual Invitational Exhibit, Painting, Ashland, OR
2004 Valentine Fine Art Exhibiting Artists Show, Painting, Livingston, MT
2003 Global Artlook, International Exhibition, 2003, Sculpture, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Jurors: Yoshio Taylor and Scott Shields
2003 Sebastopol Art Center Juried Exhibition, Sculpture, Sebastopol, CA, Juror: Manuel Neri
2003 Crossings, Two-Person Juried, Installation, Old City Hall Gallery, Redding, CA
2003 Soaring Spirits, Invitational, Painting, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR
2003 Redding City Hall Public Art Exhibit, Juried, Painting, Redding, CA
2002 Light, Color and Harmony in Nature, Invitational, Sculpture/Painting, Iona Gallery, Dunsmuir, CA
2002 Post-Postcard, Mail-In Exhibit, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2002 College of the Siskiyous Invitational, Painting, College of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA
2001 Redding Museum of Art Annual Juried Show, Sculpture, Redding, CA, Juror: Sheri Simons
2001 Lighter than Air, Invitational, Installation, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2000 Annual Juried Student Exhibition, University Art Gallery, CSUChico, CA
2000 Making Change-The Art of Social Protest, Mail-Art Show, Solano Community College, Solano, CA
2000 Crocker Museum Biennial Juried Show, Painting, Sacramento, CA
1996 San Francisco Public Library, Public Art Project, worked as a scribe for Ann Hamilton and Ann Chamberlain, San Francisco, CA
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2011 Sarah Canfield Anderson Award, Outstanding Work in Sculpture, CSU Chico
2009 California State University, Summer Arts, Artist's Merit Grant
2007 Vermont Studio Center, Artist's Grant
2003 California State University, Summer Arts, Artist's Merit Grant
2001 Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant
2000 Siskiyou Arts Council Grant
1999 Research and Creativity Grant, California State University, Chico
1999 Anderson Ranch Scholarship Grant, Anderson Ranch, CO
RESIDENCIES
2009 California State University Summer Arts: Narrative in Painting
2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2005 Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada, The Nature of Things: Sculpture in Various Media, with David Middlebrook
2003 California State University Fresno-Summer Arts: Clay as a Medium for Sculpture
2001 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
1999 Anderson Ranch, Colorado, sculpture workshop with Bob Brady
1990 California State University Humboldt, Summer Arts: Oil Painting; "The Figure in Context"
1996 California State University Long Beach: Summer Arts with Joe Harvey Allen and Terry Allen: Sculpture and Performance
