Hannah McBroom
Hannah McBroom
Hannah Thomas McBroom graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis in Painting. She is a Graduate Student pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Arkansas.
Her work explores themes of gender, materiality, sense of place, and body. Newer work will emphasis transgender identity, representation, and alienation. She has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Chautauqua School of Art. Her work has shown in national shows including Manifest’s Tapped and International Painting Annual 6, Red Clay Survey, and other National Competitions.
In painting, imagery balanced with mark and medium comprises a visual landscape where meaning is in relation to the experience of unpacking the layers of paint. In my paintings, I’m after a movement from image, to paint, to a felt space or sensation where things can be touched and experienced, never limiting the work to what it means. I rely on my surroundings and historical knowledge of painting to create set ups or photo references that can hold the plasticity of paint without restricting itself in relation to the overall image.
Exploring the stories and moments in my life, the paintings I make excavate my past, to reconnect with moments I have experienced or to uncover a felt sensation in a physical space or body. These moments are not inherently linked to the imagery requiring the viewer to slow down and find this meaning not in the naming of things but the way they are painted.
