Amanda Hanlon
BioAmanda Hanlon was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She moved to New York City in 1997 where she studied Illustration at the Pratt Institute and worked for the Visual Merchandising Department at Ralph Lauren until 2001. In 2003 she received her BFA in Painting from the University of Wisconsin. She received her MFA from the Painting and Drawing Department at the University of Washington - Seattle in 2007. She moved to Savannah in 2008. She has been a co-op member of the Kobo Gallery in Downtown Savannah since April of 2009. Amanda currently teaches Painting, Drawing and Printmaking in the Fine Arts Department at Armstrong Atlantic State University. |
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Artist Statement
My work utilizes architectural spaces and elements 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 architectural elements I source for my work are derived from places I have physically experienced.
I am most interested in how this process allows me to better understand a place. 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. Often returning to elements 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.
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