Mandy Hansen 

 

Artist Statement

 

Mandy grew up in a land cut wide by the Delaware River and speckled with honeymoon resorts featuring heart-shaped tubs and champagne glass jacuzzis.  This landscape influenced her daydreaming and romance with nature.

 

Mandy's artwork marries landscape and wonder. She often collaborates with natural elements capturing a lapping river wave to mark an exposing image or using drops of water to shape and move a medium on canvas.  Other times her technique revels in daydreams and honors emerging figures that appear.

 

She utilizes familiar materials like paper, canvas, and paint and manipulates components with new and surprising results. For Mandy, making art is a chance with natural phenomena.  A chance to  fail,  flourish, and always find.  It is a process to explore shapes, honor what emerges, pay homage to nature, and intentionally embrace and search for wonder.

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Recent Career Highlights

• Flutter and Flow (2024). Invitational Show. Auric Gallery. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• Sew Subversive (2023). Juried Show. Cottonwood Center for the Arts. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• Holiday show (2023). Invitational Show. G44 Gallery. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• South Gallery Show (2023). Group Show. G44 Gallery. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• Ghost Ranch (2022). Artist Residency. Abiquiu, NM, USA.

• Paper Tiger: Works on Paper (2021). Juried Show. Cottonwood Center for the Arts. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• Viral Influence Art in the Time of Coronavirus (2021). Juried Show. Arvada Center - Main Gallery. Arvada, Colorado, USA.

• Biophilic (2020). Invitational Show. Orly's Gallery. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• Winter Blues (2020). Invitational Show. Orly's Gallery. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• Feed Your Soul (2019-2020). Art Workshop Series. University of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

• One Square Foot (2019). Anonymous Exhibition. Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.

• Taleamor Park (2019). Artist Residency. LaPorte, Indiana, USA.

• Cyanotype for Children (2019). Art Workshop. Hug It Forward. Caquixajay, Tecpan, Chimaltenango, Guatemala.

• Synchronocity (2019). Juried show based upon Helen Frankenthaler's work. Cottonwood Center for the Arts. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.