The Blue House Gallery is excited to present “The 40th Trimester” by Hannah Kasper!
Opening Saturday March 14th from 6-9PM at The Blue House Gallery!
Hannah Kasper (b. 1981 in Ossining, New York), holds a BFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia and Rome) and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Hannah’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group shows in locations including Exit Art and Lucky Gallery (NYC), Tramway (Glasgow), Artnews Projects (Berlin), Gil Artist Gallery (Iceland), and The Contemporary Dayton. She has worked for publications including Cabinet Magazine, New York Magazine, and Food & Wine, and her art & culture writing appears regularly in the Dayton Daily News. She is an experienced children’s art educator, having taught in Los Angeles, New York City, and the Midwest US. Hannah is an artistic collaborator with Dayton Dance Initiative, contributing backdrops and costumes to the contemporary dance company. Hannah moved from Brooklyn, NYC to the quiet life in Dayton, Ohio during the Covid pandemic and lives with her husband and two children. She keeps a studio in the Davis Linden building in East Dayton.
From the Artist:
My work is about the relationship between interior and exterior worlds — the inner self versus the outer spaces we inhabit. I often use the idea of a theater, with objects from my own life placed on the stage, to represent personal and familial history. Current work has grown out of my experience of motherhood and having a body shaped by caregiving, age, and invisible labor. Grounded in a feminist perspective around visibility and value, these paintings let me question who gets to be seen and how worth is constructed around those bodies. I am also interested in painting’s ability to investigate perception and illusion. From researching optical devices used in ancient theater, I explore the use of the lens throughout art history, and the eye as the original camera lens. Out of this stemmed imagery based on scans of my body. By representing the insides of my eyes and breasts, I’m describing features that both invite and resist the gaze, that alternately represent nurture, comfort, and desire. Paintings of my daughter’s eyes extend this inquiry beyond the self. They introduce a shared field of looking, charged with care. To this end, seeing — and painting — is embodied, relational, and continually shifting between what is revealed and what remains unseen.
We hope you can come join us March 14th for our newest exhibition! If you've been here before, the parking situation is a little different. Our friends at The DURC next door are willing to let us use the old Seibenthaler's parking lot. Once you park, and visit our new horse neighbors! We'd like to leave the parking nearest the house for folks with any mobility issues. Please join us on Saturday!
The 40th Trimester
New Work by Hannah Kasper
Opening Reception March 14th, 6:00pm
3325 Catalpa Drive Dayton, Ohio 45405
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