Hannah Smith

Lives and works in Lexington, KY, USA

Artist statement

Hannah Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who creates sculptures and installations that merge Pop Art references and assemblage strategies with a rebellious punk attitude. Employing recognizable imagery and unconventional materials, Smith has developed a playful and unpretentious art practice that offers a complex vision of society, in which blue-collar aesthetics embody political and social ideologies of discontent. Smith’s work investigates the consequences within abuse of power, societal expectations, and perception of norms through miniature landscapes, abstracted commercial signage, and fictional machines. In doing so, unveiling the often unseen violence within power; power that shapes and confines our self-perception, that commodifies our love, desire, dreams, our most essential human nature; powers that are only escapable if the price is right. Toward this end, they synthesize various methods and materials to imagine spaces that fuse fact and fantasy, resistance and resilience, humor and hope for the future.

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