Everything and Oranges

Hannah Dean paints in the alla prima fashion, meaning with efficient and visible brushwork. Her resources are her own photos or memories, friends’ social media posts, and a variety of digital resources. These paintings touch on shared collective experience such as internet use and visual cultural touchstones like the western art history canon or the Muppets. Desire plays a role as she craves a more physical, unplugged (cliché but true) experience in her own life and family life as she and her husband raise a child. In this body of work, she fully gives in to cliché, embracing sentimentality, however distorted, as a means of genuine expression.