BIO
Hannah Holt, like her artwork, is usually coated in glitter and emanates an unmistakable pink glow. Growing up on Long Island, Maine, she spent her childhood attending pottery classes that she would later teach. After moving to Portland, Hannah began at the Maine College of Art and Design as a Painting major and will graduate this spring with a forthcoming BFA in Sculpture.
When not in the studio, Hannah is behind the line, working as a cook in local Portland restaurants. She can often be found sketchbooking, color mixing, or with her beloved dog, Theo, at the beach — asking the ocean for answers.
Hannah is eternally grateful for support from the Albert K. Murray Foundation, the Island Institute, and MECA&D’s Presidential Scholarship for making her dream of pursuing art a reality.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Step into a realm of amorphous shapes in melting oranges and greens— real and imagined environments of lush color. I live and make here, searching for portals to bring you into different corners of this world. Enter and play amongst
representations of femininity and girlhood: an overwhelm of pink, coated in glitter
My work lives in liminality between sculpture and painting, on the threshold between 2D and 3D. A focus on installation allows my objects and environments to blend into the real world. I invite you to lie inside a welded steel frame stretched with decorated canvases that envelope you, or immerse yourself in multimedia paintings that extend off the wall with growths of foam and wood.
The limitations of our perception of color, light, and form fascinate me. I use abstraction to explore this movement, relationships between surfaces, and the reversal of figure and ground. With color theory always at the forefront of my mind, my process informs the final work by leading with intuition and layering until shapes and colors harmonize throughout the composition.
