In her hybrid drawing-painting practice, Hannah Taurins excavates and reconstructs imagery from the vast field of fashion photography. Her editorial eye is compelled by scenes that posit dynamic subjects as agents of a meta-dialogue between media and art, or between their own subjecthood and objecthood. In her elaborately layered compositions on paper mounted to panel, Taurins fleshes out the photographic propelling of desire with expert draftsmanship and repossessing flair. Context is selectively articulated as a means of reference either to the printed media from which an image comes or towards the fine art into which it has been translated.
Hannah Taurins (b. 1997, Houston, Texas) lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from Cooper Union, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2023); Brant-Timonier, Palm Beach (2023)'; and Theta, New York (2022). Select group exhibitions include: High Art, Seoul, KR (2024); Spazio Amanita, New York, (2023); Shoot the Lobster, New York (2022); Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2022); In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022); and Entrance, New York (2022).
Trine, 2024 Colored pencil and gouache on paper mounted to board 40 x 53 in
Hey Mister, 2024 Colored pencil and gouache on paper mounted to board 40 x 53 in
Baby It's You, 2024 Colored pencil and gouache on paper mounted to board 40 x 30 in
Installation view Liste Art Fair, Basel, 2024
Installation view Liste Art Fair, Basel, 2024
You Can Find Me in Here, 2024 Colored pencil and gouache on paper mounted to board 12 x 9 in
Slow Burn , 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted on panel 52 x 42 in
Issues Installation view Chåteau Shatto, Los Angeles, 2023
Editor in Chief, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted on panel 37 x 44 in
Sitter, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper 33 x 15 in
D'illusion, 2022 Colored pencil and gouache on paper mounted to board 18 x 18 in
Issues Installation view Chåteau Shatto, Los Angeles, 2023
Perspective, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted to board 18 x 24 in
Picturesque, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted to board 18 x 14 in
Dissolve, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted to board 20 x 16 in
Naomi Outside, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted on panel 47 x 36 in
I Thought I Was a Painting Already Installation view Brant-Timonier, Palm Beach, 2023
I Thought I Was a Painting Already Installation view, 2023 Brant-Timonier, Palm Beach
The Studio, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted to board 20 x 20 in
Nerotic, 2023 Gouache and colored pencil on paper mounted to board 12 x 9 in
Britney, 2023 Marker and colored pencil on paper mounted to board 14 x 11 in
Cover Girl Installation view Theta, New York, 2021
Flush, 2022 Colored pencil and gouache on paper mounted to board 18 x 24 in
Cover Girl Installation view Theta, New York, 2021
Spinner, 2021 Colored pencil on paper mounted to board 14 x 18 in
Cover Girl, Installation view Theta, New York, 2021
