Hannah McBroom
Hannah McBroom
Hannah McBroom graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis in Painting. She received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas in 2019. Her work explores themes of transgender identity, materiality, alienation, and the body.
She has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Chautauqua School of Art. Hannah has exhibited in many shows nationally and internationally including The Red Clay Survey, Manifest’s Tapped, International Painting Annual #6 in 2015 and again in 2018 for #9. She is the recipient of the Artist 360 Grant through the Mid American Artist Coalition. She currently maintains a studio in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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 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 and photo references that hold the plasticity of paint without restricting the paint to an illustration of the overall image.
The paintings I make excavate my past and 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.
