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STATEMENT
Driven by history, faith and fantasy I embrace a spiritual devotion to the ritual of art making pounding images into the surface with common tools and materials. Worked repetitively until the material becomes the content- recording and processing stimuli to craft a dense diagram of layered historic pictorial references to navigate. The most recent episode of painting is an ongoing series of mixed media and collaged landscapes that focus on Staghorn Sumac, a roadside pioneer plant often seen growing in the tree line along the way.
BIO
Matthew Hanna is not driven. He drives. He drives a whole community of artists and arts organizations - so nimbly, so magically, most don't recognize his impact. He's the man behind the curtain, pulling levers, creating thunder, making things seem effortless, look beautiful. He's great and powerful, the wizard of art: making it, showing it, installing it, lighting it, packing it, moving it, thinking about it, talking about it, living it, loving it. Of course, he'd be the first to say he's no wizard, just a guy making a living. But we know differently. For over two decades, Matthew has been there for Detroit art: he's charmed us with his home-spun, subtly brilliant exhibition concepts; he's been a tireless under-the-radar activist for art and artists; he's been the muscle behind some of our most important art spaces; he's produced some of Detroit's smartest art; he's carried our work to points beyond; and he never says no. Even with a flat tire, five deadlines and a dollar in his pocket, he'll be there for us, with quiet fortitude and the next great idea. He's the Detroit art community's Professor Marvel. And don't you forget it.
- Michelle Perron
Director Center Galleries
ESSAY
Matthew Hanna is an intuitive colorist whose heavy application of deeply colored pigment, clotted blood-red on trees and dripping deep-brown down branches, are reminiscent of the Post-impressionists or German expressionists. They also have an illusory Old and New World effect, as if they could easily be seen on stained glass in a European chapel, or in the window of a hot Manhattan gallery in the 1950s. Because of this, there's a sense of permanence in his abstract scenes. Forget looking at them; you want to live forever in them.
-Rebecca Mazzei
Arts and Culture Editor Metro Times
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
34 Secrets Revealed
RIVER'S EDGE GALLERY
3024 Biddle Avenue
Wyandotte, Michigan 48192
January 15-March 12, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15 6-10PM
LEWIS-KRIEGER-HANNA
Andy-licious Matthew Sandwich at
CASS CAFE
4620 Cass Avenue
Detroit Michigan 48201
December 5, 2009-February 6, 2010
the detroiter.com
model D
CREATORS:SELF PORTRAITS
OF ARTIST
Curated by Sherry Washington
Brown and Juanita Ford Gallery
WCCCD Downtown Campus
801 West Fort Street
Detroit Michigan 48226
December 3, 2009-February 28, 2010
COMING EXHIBITIONS
DIRTY SHOW 2010 DETROIT
Bart's Warehouse
2739 Russell Street
Detroit Michigan 48207
February 12-20, 2010
The mission of The Dirty Show is to promote,
publish and propagate erotic art in all forms.
This is done in the form of an erotic art exhibition
which has become one of the largest in the world.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Can't See the Forest for the Trees
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DETROIT
3911 Beaubien
Detroit, Michigan 48201
October -December 2009
SouthWest Artist Network
OUR CREATIVE LIFE
Lady Bug Gallery
1250 Hubbard Street
Detroit, Michigan 48209
May 2-July 31, 2009
RHUS TYPHINA L.
SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITION
MAJESTIC CAFE
4120 Woodward Ave
Detroit, Michigan 48201
May 7-29, 2009
Actual Size Preamble
CAID
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd
Detroit, Michigan 48208
May 8-July 3, 2009
COLLECTED:Slippery Weasel Society
ANTON ART CENTER
125 Macomb Place
Mount Clemens, Michigan 48043
May 15-June 28, 2009
ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS AND EXHIBITION
Featuring College for Creative Studies scholarship finalists, faculty and alumni
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET
4719 Woodward Ave
Detroit, Michigan 48201
March 13-April 18, 2009
VIDEO LINK BY GILDA SNOWDEN
VIDEO LINK BY model D
WHAT MATTERS MOST...
in the Arts Center's Exhibitions without Borders series
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER
608 New York Ave
Sheboygan, Wisconsin 53081
November 9, 2008-February 15, 2009
Year of the Weasel
SLIPPERY WEASEL
SOCIETY EXHIBITION
Featuring Arturo Rodriguez, Carl Butler, Jeanne Bieri, Jerome Ferretti, Mary Fortuna, Matthew Hanna and Todd Erickson
THE SCARAB CLUB
217 Farnsworth
Detroit, Michigan 48202
January 3-February 15, 2009
VIDEO LINK BY GILDA SNOWDEN
VIDEO LINK:Music by K-9
LAIR-CRAFTS
New work by Matthew Hanna and Todd Erickson
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES
CENTER GALLERIES
ALUMNI AND FACILITY HALL
301 Frederick Douglass
Detroit, Michigan 48202
November 8-December 20, 2008
VIDEO LINK BY GILDA SNOWDEN
ROCKY FORD DAY
This Week in Art
MOTOR CITY BREWING WORKS
470 West Canfield
Detroit, Michigan 48201
December 3, 2008
VIDEO LINK BY GILDA SNOWDEN
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