ARTIST STATMENTI am an interdisciplinary artist working between painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and sound. My work begins in emotional contradiction, a quiet tension. I’m drawn to fragile things that carry too much: delicate forms shaped by longing and the quiet weight of what couldn’t stay.
Working intuitively, I follow a felt sense rather than a fixed idea. I use natural materials such as silk, canvas, linen, wool, latex, oil paint, ink, charcoal, wood, light, and organic matter. Creating from this haunted softness, I explore a space where beauty aches and nothing holds still. My figures are influenced by fleeting impressions, emotional gestures, the exaggerated drama of Baroque and Medieval art, and the surreal, mythic logic of imagined worlds. They hold traces of iconography as a way of re-sacralizing the unexpected. Figures blur or vanish, gestures twist, appendages elongate or distort, and surfaces feel raw and unfinished. I’m not interested in resolution but drawn to the strange, whispered existence of what flickers beneath it: the in-between, the uncertain, the half-felt.
My practice explores the ache of what remains unspoken, a soft unraveling, and the quiet urge to stay visible. It invites others into the suspended places we carry inside ourselves, where contradictions live without needing to resolve.
ARTIST BIOHannah Baskin is a London-based interdisciplinary artist. Her practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance. She creates works using materials like silk, natural fibers, wood, and her own tears to explore themes of dissociation, longing, spiritual tension, and transformation.
Originally from Texas, Baskin holds a BFA in Sculpture, Drawing & Painting with an Art History minor from the University of North Texas and completed a competitive undergraduate residency at the New York Academy of Art in 2023, where she was awarded a merit-based full tuition scholarship. She recently received a MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Dallas Contemporary, 1969 Gallery (NYC), Hypha Gallery (London), The Handbag Factory (London), Site 131 (Dallas), and Arts Fort Worth.
Baskin co-founded and co-led the Anti Avant Garde Avant Garde Artists Collective from 2021 to 2023, through which she co-organized experimental exhibitions and performances including Be Home in 10 and Cooperative Conundrum. Separately, she co-curated the group exhibition DOLOREM IPSUM with close collaborators, outside of the collective framework.
Her practice and collaborative projects have been featured in Glasstire, Voyage Dallas, and the Dallas Observer’s “10 Dallas Artists to Watch” (2024).
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