images above from left to right:
Drawing Against Itself No. 2, 2008, collaged paper, ink, acrylic, colored pencil and graphite on paper, 38 x 28 inches
Big Smile, 2008, collaged paper, ink, acrylic, colored pencil and graphite on paper, 28 x 22 inches
Funny Feeling, 2008, collaged paper, ink, acrylic and graphite on paper, 13 x 10 inches
The Wild Project Gallery and Humble Arts Foundation are pleased to present As We Came Together We Will Go Together, an exhibition of photographs by Hannah Whitaker. The show takes its title from the fable of the Biddenden Maids, a set of conjoined twins from the pre-medical 1100s, setting the tone for the duality threaded throughout the exhibition. In the myth, when one twin died and it was proposed that they be separated so that the other might live, the surviving sister replied, “As we came together we will go together,” and died shortly after. In these photographs, Whitaker uses patterns and repetition, both naturally occurring and rendered by hand, to investigate the interdependence of opposing halves. The case of the twins exposes the paradoxical rift between scientific understanding and lived experience explored throughout the show–its emotional implications are complex while the math is simple. Her dark, often uncomfortable images, which include mangled trees, snakes, and sword and fire swallowers, challenge conventional sequential logic to explore her interest in the misleading simplicity of visual clarity, and how these serve as metaphors for human anxiety.
Humble Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that works to advance the careers of emerging fine-art photographers by way of exhibition and publishing opportunities, limited-edition print sales, twiceannual artists grants, and educational programming.
The Artist
Born in New Hampshire (1976)Lives and works in New York
solo exhibitions:
2008 Vanitas, The Wild Project, New York, NY
2007 Beautiful Balance, Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Paris, France (catalogue)
2007 Priority Index, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
2006 The Belief Signal, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
selected group exhibitions:
2008 Cover Version, Taylor de Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Accident Blackspot, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
2008 I Declare This War Is Over, Triple Base Gallery, SF, CA
2008 Accident Blackspot, Galerie Markus Winter, Berlin, Germany
2007 Pulp Dream, 33 Bond Gallery, New York, NY
2007 W.I.P., Galleri Magnus Aklundh, Malmo, Sweden
2007 Here and Elsewhere, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx, NY (catalogue)
2006 Forth Estate Editions, Klaus Von Nichtssangend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 CRG Presents: Klaus Von Nichtssangend, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2006 You Have To Be Almost Gifted To Do What I Do, Alexander & Bonin, New York, NY
2006 Don!t Abandon Ship, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Selected Drawings, Klaus Von Nichtssangend, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Loyal And His Band, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)
2005 Greater Brooklyn, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2005 The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY
2005 Young Mountain, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH (catalogue)
2005 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Flanuer , Punch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Dude Ranch, SPACE 1026, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Gondola Mayo Funnel, Mimi Barr Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 East River, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
education:
1999, Rhode Island School of Design, BFA
awards / honors:
2008, Art Cologne / New Talents, selected artist, Cologne, Germany
2008, Scholastic Art Awards Jury Member / Division of Printmaking and Drawing, New York, NY
2007, AIM Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC
2006, Advocate Arts Presents / Guest Speaker, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2005, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, 2005 Residency Fellowship, Ithaca, NY
selected bibliography:
Chu, Ingrid, Accident Blackspot, Time Out New York, August, 2008
Stern, Steven, Joseph Hart / Fragments, Seems Books, July, 2008
Apenest Vol. 2, Contributing Artist, April, 2008
Losser, Ernest, Where The Pieces Fall, FV Magazine Vol.2, 2008
Ribas, Jaos, The Reeductaion of The Un-Artist, Here And Elsewhere Catalogue, April, 2007
Brown, Nick, The Art of Storytelling, COLOR Magazine, October, 2006
Hot & Cold Vol. 4, Contributing Artist, 2005
Alessandrelli, Irina Zucca, Larisposta di Brooklyn alla Grande NY, Flash Art, August – September, 2005
Amy, Martin, Kristian, Loyal And His Band, Loyal Books Vol. 1, 2005
Printed Illustrations,The New York Times, various dates, sections and authors