'I live in an artist community loft space in an old cotton mill building, but in spite of this I sometimes confront the social isolation that modern conveniences affords us. I live in a city, I drive or take the subway, I spend a lot of time with my computer, and I have to remind myself to look at the sky. Modern society has been expanding and spreading out for a very long time. In my paintings I am interested in making an imaginary space where things intersect, implode, and explode, cluster together, overlap, and touch each other.' Hannah Bureau
Hannah Bureau is studying for an MA in Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art, having completed a BA at Rhode Island School of Design. Her abstract paintings are inspired by natural forms - starbursts, the milky way, the Aurora Borealis, geology, iceberg formations, crystal formations, and crystal gardens - as well as patterns from 1950s and 60s textile design, fractal geometry in nature and computer-generated fractal images. Bureau describes her paintings as 'active environments, both calm, and agitated'. In her richly textured and vibrant paintings Bureau experiments with 'making the arbitrary paint stroke or drip seem intentional by adding a drop shadow, or including it as the architecture of a structure'. Both chance and balance are at play in her work.
A painting by Hannah Bureau was bought by the winner of the Independent's recent Collectors' Competition, Abbas Williams Akbari.
To see more of Hannah Bureau's work you can visit her STUART profile page by clicking here.
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