Hannah Antalek (b. 1991; Albany, NY) is an artist living in Queens, NY and working in Brooklyn, NY. In 2013 she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in painting, and continued her education through the New York City Crit Club. Her recent solo exhibition Superseed (5-50 Gallery; Queens, NY) was reviewed in Whitehot Magazine and Two Coats of Paint. Recent exhibitions include Warm Lurch (solo) at Tinimini Room (Dordrecht, NL), Cereal Isle at Marquee Projects (Bellport, NY), High-Stakes presented by Lisa Boudet (Paris, FR), Close Encounters at The Java Project (Brooklyn, NY) curated by Good Naked and Gloop, curated by 5-50 Gallery at Spring/Break Art Show (New York, NY). Hannah has been an artist in residence at The Moosey Residency (2024), The Studios of Key West (2018), and The Vermont Studio Center (2016). She is the recipient of a New Work Grant from the Queens Art Fund.
Hannah’s work explores an imaginary post-human landscape with roots in science fiction and environmental crisis. She primarily depicts engorged mushroom-like daisies that have undergone a hypothetical evolution in reaction to a changing world. Mysteriously backlit in vivid tones, each color cast is evocative of an unknown light source that might insinuate the presence of a second sun, a foreign moon, the heat or chill of a nearby chemical glow. Through these speculative scenes, her work questions not only the implications of humanity’s impact on nature, but the capacity for adaptation and resilience across all life forms. Read more...
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