New Artist: Becky Hanney
Energetic and ambiguous, the work of Becky Hanney facilitates a performative play between viewer and painting. The viewer is invited to find meaning and form within the work though simultaneously, the abstract strokes of paint remain unmoored to interpretation. In this way, the paintings each toy with the symbolic meaning of painting as a tradition of representation. Indeed, the equivocal titles only increase the want to explore the hidden depths of the ravines, spikes, and darts of colour enclosed in the circular frames. Abstract artist, Johnannes Itten exclaimed in 1922, that to “experience a work of art is to re-create this work of art”, and certainly in the work of Hanney, the viewer can delight in the energy of the pieces, retracing the movements of colour and form.
