The Living Room is proud to present work by New York based artist Hannah Beerman.
At first glance, the work of Hannah Beerman indicates a happy and hilarious hand. The work displayed in The Living Room combines bright bursts of thick paint, sumptuous color fields and enigmatic found materials including wigs and stuffed animals. Yet the biographical nature of the elements comprising these vibrant assemblages reveal something surprising about their source. As explained by the artist, inspiration comes from everywhere, “...but mostly desperation, survival and connection. Colors and textures. Loss, grief, humor. Just missing the mark. Hugs. Costumes. Invisible things. Holding hands. Love and intimacy. Shyness”. Through of process of destroying and repairing, collecting and discarding, the objects and forms incorporated in her paintings reveal both the light and dark of the artist’s everyday life. She successfully utilizes them to deconstruct traditional painting, to turn to immediate surroundings for materials, to favor process over image and to reject the brush but not painting itself.
Hannah Beerman (b. 1992, Nyack, NY) lives and works in New York, NY. Beerman earned her BA from Bard College in 2015 and her MFA from Hunter College in 2019. Recent exhibitions include Paintings, Kapp Kapp, New York (2023); Up All Night, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2023); Call me if you get lost, Claas Reiss, London (2023), UK; Friends & Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2022); As Above, So Below, curated by Barry Schwabsky, Duck Creek Arts Center, East Hampton, NY (2022); and Sunspots and Underpants, T293, Rome, IT (2022). She will also be included in the forthcoming exhibition The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 2024. Beerman took part in the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH in 2023 and The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY in 2020.
THE LIVING ROOM is the street facing exhibition space at DIMIN. Hannah Beerman’s Living Room presentation will run concurrently with Unfeigned Mysteries in the main gallery.