She currently lives in her hometown of Artesia, New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and new puppy. She received her Bachelors degree in Education from Lubbock Christian University and her MFA in Painting from Texas Tech University. Other publications include contributions for the catalogues of the 2018 Austin Fusebox Festival and the 2019 Contemporary Art Museum Plainview exhibition,В Rural Elements. Her work is in private collections around the globe and is sold through Saatchi Art Online and Charles Adams Gallery in Lubbock, Texas.В HannahВ founded an arts writing blog, The Bowerbird, andВ occasionally writes for Glasstire magazine. Her illustrations have been published in the California Law Review and the Harvard Journal of the Legal Left. She has been a finalist in the Hunting Art Prize 20. As I re-render the images I find on the screen, my mind envisions the parameters of an algorithm weighing dozens of variables, in comparison to the intense, singular focus of representational painting.вЂќ Hannah Dean isВ a painter with recent exhibitions including the 2019 Assistance League Houston Celebrates Texas Art (juror: Whitney NY assistant curator Jennie Goldstein), The Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition at Artspace111 (juror: Glasstire Editor Christina Rees), TX 17 Biennial, Rising Eyes of Texas 20, and publications including The Menteur Magazine 2019 issue of Paris, France, New American Paintings MFA Annual #111, Texas Arts and Culture (2017) and Art Tour International Summer Issue (2016). For instance, the search вЂњcezanneвЂќ brings forth many of his paintings, but also othersвЂ™ tributary paintings, like someone elseвЂ™s still-life of avocados. The seemingly arbitrary nature of how images are paired in internet searches inspires my work. Paint Brushes Shapes and Stickers Lines Text Pencil Smooth Dot Dash Speed Marker Scratch Eraser.

Mostly I paint from photographic resources and memory: my own, and found images on Google search. I try to leave paintings in the вЂњala primaвЂќ stage, where I spend an hour or two at most working on them, the paint still wet. вЂњObservational painting is an act of living through sight: noticing subtle shifts in color, the edges and space between things.

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