JAZZ: Recent Works by ANDREA HAHN
“My art is created like Jazz.”
Admired Cleveland artist Andrea Hahn offered that concise explanation in a recent conversation. The analogy is apt. Andrea sets down pools of rich color with oil stick as a foundation on which are set riffs on experiences and wry reactions to life’s changeability with hand-torn magazine illustrations, text fragments, and color abstractions, to form collaged mixed media works. When seen together they shimmer as if they were pieces of jewelry set out on richly colored velvet trays. Andrea Hahn has been an artist of deep commitment and powerful creativity ever since she and her family came to Cleveland from Virginia in the 1970s. Her large-scaled acrylics on canvas from that time resonated with the stained and brushed paintings of Washington (DC) Color School artists such as Kenneth Noland and Helen Frankenthaler. As her physical capability to paint on large scale became more challenging than possible, Andrea re-channeled her creativity through a more manageable focus, resulting in a stream of small sized but powerful works on paper over the ensuing two decades, and to the shimmering and crackling collages seen today. Résumé
Education
1969 University of Michigan Graduate study/painting 1961 - 1965 College of Notre Dame B.A. in Art Corcoran School of Art Painting Washington D.C. Baltimore Museum of Art Ceramics Exhibitions
2013 Tregoning & Company, Cleveland, OH 2007 Snaderio Design, Naples, FL 2005 Snaderio Design, Naples, FL 2002 DeBruyne Gallery, Naples, FL 2001 DeBruyne Gallery, Naples, FL 1996 William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, “Andrea Hahn: New Painting and Collages” 1995 Chicago Art Institute, “BFA Show” (in collaboration with Lilias Hahn) 1991 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, “55th Annual Mid-Year Show” 1991 William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, “Andrea Hahn: Mostly on Paper” 1990 National City Bank Atrium, Cleveland 1989 William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, “Andrea Hahn, New Paintings” 1989 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, “A to Z” 1988 Cleveland Museum of Art, “May Show” 1987 The Intown Club, Cleveland 1986 “4th Quarter Versions”, Norwalk, CT 1984 Large Works Invitational, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH 1982 Group Shows: Degraaf-Forsythe Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI; Robert Kidd Galleries, Detroit; Gallery Gemini, Palm Beach; Gallery 200, Columbus, OH 1982 The New Gallery, Cleveland, “Six Cleveland Area Women Artists” 1981 Group Shows: Robert Kidd Galleries, Detroit; Gallery Gemini, Palm Beach |
1980 One Person Show, Viridian Gallery, New York
1980 Group Show, Gallery Gemini, Palm Beach 1980 NOVA Juried Painting Show, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH 1980 NOVA Juried Painting Show, Dayton Art Institute 1980 Cleveland Museum of Art, “May Show” 1980 Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Two-person show 1980 Awards Exhibition, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York:“Emerging Artist Excellence Award” 1979 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, “43rd Annual Midyear Show” 1979 Viridian Gallery, New York, One Person Show 1980 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 41st Annual Midyear Show” 1977 Group Shows: Horizon Gallery, Rockport, MA; Newton Centre, Boston 1977 Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, One Person Show 1977 The New Gallery, Cleveland, “Recent Acquisitions” 1976 One Person Show, Second St. Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 1962 – 1976 Eight One Person Shows, numerous group shows, including: “Trends ‘73”, The Mall Galleries, London, England Grants
1982 Kent State University 1977 Cleveland Foundation Publications
Cover, Wilson Library Bulletin, June 1979 Cover, Wilson Library Bulletin, February 1984 Arts Magazine, Essay by Anne I. Lockhart, Director, Art Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, September 1980 Catalogue, Bonfoey on the Square, Cleveland Catalogue, NOVA Juried Painting Show, Cleveland, 1980 Catalogue, Six Cleveland Area Women Artists, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Corporate Collections
B.P. America; Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Northern Ohio; Eaton Corporation; National City Bank, Cleveland; BancOhio National Bank, Cleveland; University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA; S.R. Teimouri and Co., Inc, Cleveland; Cleveland Public Library, Union Branch; Southwest General Hospital, Cleveland; McDonald, Hopkins and Hardy, Attorney at Law, Cleveland; Meldrum and Fewsmith, Advertising, Cleveland; Riunite Wines, New York; Parker Hannifin Corporation, Cleveland; Toledo Hilton; Metro General Hsopital; Donahue and Scanlon, Attorneys; Cleveland Consulting; Hahn, Loeser and Parks; King James Group; Nestle Corporation; Ernst & Whitney; Progressive Insurance; Benesch, Friedlander, Copeland and Aronoff; Hotel International, Cleveland, Ohio Lecture
Cleveland Museum of Art, John Moore, Department of Art History and Education: “An Introduction to Contemporary Cleveland Artists”, 1980 Organizations Vice President, Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art, 1985-1986 Board of Trustees, Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art, 1984-1985 Coordinator, Volunteers, NOVA, Cleveland, 1980-1981 Coordinator, Artists’ Rights, NOVA, Cleveland 1979 Board of Trustees, New Organization of the Visual Arts, Cleveland, 1979-1980 Board of Directors, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, 1975-1976 |
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