Hannah Witner

Lives and works in Charlotte, NC, USA

Artist statement

New York-based, North Carolina-born, multidisciplinary artist Hannah Witner holds a BFA from Parsons School for Design. Her work spans from colorful, surrealist, and psychological oil paintings, whimsical drawings, and commercial design. At the heart of her work lies a passion for uncovering the hidden potential of materials, psychological processes, and the human condition, which she undertakes in a spirit of curiosity and experimentation. Her work combines touches of realism with meta-fiction and comedy and reflects our disorder, dissociation, detachment, individualism, transience, and weird minutia of morphing characters, figures in motion, and layers of reality. Witner’s work combines humanoids with an expansive array of visual material with immense play of colors, beginning in consciousness and transience. Her work combines touches of reality with meta-fiction and comedy and reflects our disorder, dissociation, detachment, individualism, transience, and weird minutia of the human condition. It echoes the phenomena of the subconscious through morphing characters, figures in motion, and layers of consciousness and reality through bold juxtaposition of line, color, and shape. She pokes at the flawed and unexplainable through painting and illustration, expressing a disorderliness that is both humorous and amorphic. Witner hopes her new bodies of work read as an exploration into the boundaries that comics and cartoons can push into traditional and non-traditional painting...

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