ANNE HANGER

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  Inspired by my love of plant and landscape forms I try to make paintings that mimic abstractly the dynamic beauty I’m attracted to in nature. My work begins with digital improvisations on the computer which are a regular part of my daily art practice. I feel free and uninhibited when I work on the computer which makes it a good medium for experimenting. I begin with shapes, colors, and textures taken from original paintings, photographs and drawings I’ve done. I combine and manipulate these working the same forms over and over again, often surprised by where my imagination takes me. I typically generate hundreds of iterations of a composition before settling on one that embodies the energy, ambiguity, tension, complexity, exuberance, or unexpected elegance I’m trying to capture.

Once a study is completed it is printed out and used as a reference in creating larger painted works on canvas. Color mixing takes a long time as each needs to be matched and then adjusted when experienced as pigment. I like to add sand to the acrylic paints that I work with because they give the paint an “earthy”, textural quality. Opaque paint is applied in layers. Typically it takes three to four applications to get the texture right. The larger paintings can take months to paint. Each layer affords an opportunity to fine tune the color, texture and edges. In my newest work I’ve been incorporating contrasting matte/shiny and transparent/opaque surfaces in my paintings. Oftentimes changes in the composition are needed to adjust the work to the larger format. I consider the work finished when it surprises me with a life of its own. 		 
 
Selected Exhibitions and Commissions
Anne Hanger was born in the District of Columbia and  grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. She earned Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 1974 and 1977. As Anne Markle, she was a professor of art at Auburn University in Alabama for 15 years and at the University of New Orleans for two . Returning to her maiden name in 1993, Anne taught at Mississippi State University in Starkville for six years and for seven at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. She now paints full-time and resides with her husband, Bob Craycroft in Staunton.
Solo Exhibition, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, Virginia, August, 2023

Solo Exhibition, Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, Virginia, November, 2021

Riverview 12th Annual Juried Art Show juried by Jeffrey Cudlin, Craddock-Terry Gallery in Lynchburg, Virginia, 2020

“The Journey Within” Group Exhibition at Latela Gallery, Washington, DC, Curated by Willa Alexander-Jaffe, 2018

“Dimensions” Group Exhibition at Latela Gallery, Washington, DC, Curated by Genevieve Keillor, 2018

Riverview 9th Annual Juried Art Show juried by Marta Staudinger, Craddock-Terry Gallery, Lynchburg, Virginia, 2017

Solo Exhibition, Sweet Briar College, Amherst, Virginia, August, 2015

“Land / Landscape” two-person exhibition at the Beverley Street Studio School Gallery, Staunton, Virginia, 2015

Juror’s Award, Mid-Atlantic Painting Juried Exhibition, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 2014

Juror’s Award, Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community Juried Exhibition, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2014

Texas National Juried Exhibition, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2012

Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community’s 2005 Annual Juried Art Competition, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2012.

Solo Exhibition, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 2010

Solo Exhibition, Augusta Medical Center, Fishersville, Virginia, 2008

Group Show, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2007

Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community’s 2005 Annual Juried Art Competition, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2005

Commission: Eight Paintings of Daylilies for Louisville Bank and Trust, Louisville, Georgia, 2004

Group Exhibition, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 2004

Solo Exhibition, Mississippi State University School of Architecture, Starkville, Mississippi, 2001

Catherine Moore Fine Art Annual Summer Exhibition, New York, New York, 2000

Cottonlandia Juried Art Exhibition juried by Andrew Maas, Cottonlandia Museum, Greenwood, Mississippi, 2000

“A Sense of Place” National Juried Exhibition, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, l999

Mississippi Invitational Juried Group Exhibition, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, l999

“Saints Among Us” Traveling Exhibition, Mississippi State University, Clemson University and other venues, 1998

17th Juried Fine Arts Competition, Cottonlandia Museum, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1998

Tom Peyton Memorial Juried Art Competition, First United Methodist Church, Alexandria, Louisiana, l998

Arts Alive ‘98, Kennedy Douglas Center for the Arts, Florence, Alabama, 1998.

Mississippi Watercolor Society Members Show, Brown’s Fine Art Gallery, Jackson, MMississippi, l997

Solo Exhibition, Emanuel Art Center, Swainsboro, Georgia, l996

Mississippi Religious Artists Juried Show, William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, January, l996

Mississippi Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition, Merit Award, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, Fall l995

Florida National l991 Juried Exhibition, Florida State University Museum and Art Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, l991

LaGrange National Juried Exhibition, LaGrange Museum, LaGrange, Georgia, April, l990

49th National Competition of the Watercolor Society of Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, l990

Watercolor U.S.A. l989 Juried Exhibition, Purchase Award, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri, l989

Watercolor U.S.A. l988, exhibition juried by Keith Crown, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri, l988

Bi-State Juried Art Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi, March, l988

“Alabama Artists Showcase”, Alabama State Arts Council Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama, March l987

“Alabama, State of the Arts”, juried invitational, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, l985

“Southeastern Watercolorists II”, juried exhibition at the Deland Museum, Deland, Florida, l984

“Painting: Southeast”, exhibition juried by Miriam Shapiro, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, Florida, l983.

Festival of New Works”, invitational juried by Peter Frank, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, l983

New Orleans Women’s Caucus for Art 4th Annual Juried Exhibition, University of New Orleans, Louisiana, l983

“Collage: Southeast” Invitational, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, l982
Awards
Purchase Award, Annual Cottonlandia Juried Competition, Cottonlandia Museum, Greenwood, Mississippi, 2000

Best of Show Award, Starkville Arts Festival, Starkville, Mississippi, 1998

Merit Award, Mississippi Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, 1995

Auburn University Outstanding Fine Arts Faculty Teaching Award, Spring 1991

Patron Purchase Award, Watercolor USA l989 Juried Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri, l989

Merit Award, Alabama Art League 50th Juried Exhibition, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama, l979
Collections
The Silva Collection, Washington, DC

Avec on H Street Collection, Washington, DC

Microsoft Collection, Washington, D. C.

Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

Louisville Bank and Trust, Swainsboro, Georgia

Augusta Health Medical Center, Fishersville, Virginia

Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Cottonlandia Museum, Greenwood, Mississippi
Public Speaking on Art
Panel discussion with Bishop Mark Bourlakis on Art and Personal Growth, Trinity Episcopal Church, Staunton, VA, 2019

Lecture on Art and Spirituality, Friendship Workshop Sponsored by ECW, Trinity Episcopal Church, Staunton, VA, 2016

Lecture/Slide presentation on my work, Beverley Street Studio School Monday Morning Conversations About Art, ‘06

Lecture/Slide presentation on landscape painting, Oktoc Community Center, Oktoc, Mississippi, ‘97

St. Richard Catholic Church, Jackson, MS “The Art of Sainthood”, l996

Watercolor Workshop, Emanuel Art Center, Swainsboro, Georgia, 1996

Auburn Unitarian Fellowship, “The Art of Sainthood”, l995

St. Richard Catholic Church, “ Art and Spiritual Growth”, Jackson, Mississippi, l995

Lecture on the Golden Age of Watercolor, Elderhostel, Auburn University, 1990

Slide lecture and workshop on watercolor painting, The Alabama Watercolor Society, l984

Guest lecturer on calligraphy, Cobb Memorial Library, Vernon, Alabama, l984

Guest lecturer on design, University of Texas at Arlington, 1981

Guest lecturer on my work, LaGrange College Department of Art, LaGrange, Georgia, l980
  

Copyright   Anne Hanger   2024