Central Vermont Medical Center President and CEO Judy Tarr is pleased to announce that art by Don Hanson is the newest exhibit in the CVMC lobby art gallery.
Don Hanson is an abstract painter, printmaker and photographer. His work addresses a respectful exploration of man’s association with nature. He draws much of his inspiration and his images from observing the marks, textures and patinas of natural forms. Don is interested in the impact of time and forces on the landscape. His work reveals a conscious and/or unconscious reaction to place.
Adelaide Tyrol, one of CVMC's previous exhibitors, wrote a review of Hanson's work in the Fall 2010 issue of Northern Woodlands Magazine. Owl with Rust #2, on exhibit at CVMC, is part of "Hanson’s Avian Series: Damaged Beauty, a project which began with photographs taken at the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Employing photography, a printing press, paint, blow torches, Japanese rice papers, asphaltum, tar, rust and seemingly endless panoply of materials, Don Hanson glues, compresses, paints and manipulates materials until he finds that primordial feeling that much of his work evokes. The final result, as evidenced here, defies this striking array of materials and processes, and stands securely on its own."
Don was also featured in an article by Marc Awodey that appeared in the November/December issue of Art New England. From the hundreds of artists hailing from Stowe and its environs, the Art New England staff, with help from a few Vermont writers and artists, arrived at a group of five individuals who seem indicative of the caliber of visual art around Stowe. Don Hanson was one of the five.
"Printmaker and painter Don Hanson lives in Stowe, but his mixed-media works are closely related to the natural world. Hanson is a brilliant technician and his pieces are sometimes marked by delicacy and an air of transience. Insects, primitive figuration, and completely nonobjective images appear among his subjects. His pieces often seem dark and moody at first, yet inevitably a glimmer of hope and light becomes a subtext."
"We are excited to have an artist of Don's caliber and creativity exhibiting at CVMC," stated Judy.
The exhibit is on display from December 6, 2010 through February 4, 2011.
