ARTIST STATMENTI am an interdisciplinary artist working between performance, painting, installation, sculpture, and sound. My work begins in emotional contradictions, the intensity and subtly of them. I’m drawn to things that are visceral, that give me an immediate reaction in some shape or form.
I work intuitively, following a felt sense rather than a fixed idea. I use natural materials such as the body and what comes from it, silk, canvas, linen, wool, light, latex, oil paint, ink, charcoal, wood, and organic matter. Creating from this haunted place, I explore a space where beauty aches and nothing holds still. My work hold traces of iconography as a way of re-sacralizing the unexpected. Figures blur or vanish, gestures twist, appendages elongate or distort. I’m not interested in resolution but drawn to the strange, 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 or not so 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 an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice moves fluidly between performance, painting, installation, sculpture, and sound. She creates works using materials like the body and it’s fluids, silk, natural fibers, metal, and wood to explore themes of abjection, rawness, decay, absence, dissociation, tension, longing, spirituality, 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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