Philip Hanson

Philip Hanson

BornNationalityBased In
1943AmericanChicago
Biography

Philip Hanson is an artist connected to the Chicago Imagist movement of the 1960s, artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago whose arrestingly vibrant and graphic artworks traversed a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Throughout his long career, although principally a painter, Philip Hanson has experimented with mezzotint and aquatint, etching and hand-colouring techniques to create rich and layered images. Influenced equally by surrealism, opera and costume, Hanson’s images are dramatic and labyrinthian, both visually and through their incorporation of elaborate constellations of shapes and imagery to communicate internal and externalised emotions spanning love, desire and anguish. ...

Selected Artworks
Light Wrap, 1975-1976 
Philip Hanson
Light Wrap, 1975-1976 , 1975
45 x 35.6cm
Room with Flower and Vases and Knives, 1975 
Philip Hanson
Room with Flower and Vases and Knives, 1975 , 1975
21.6 x 17.8cm
Shell Vanity
Philip Hanson
Shell Vanity, 1975
48.3 x 45.1cm
Untitled (perfume bottle)
Philip Hanson
Untitled (perfume bottle), 1973
27.9 x 29.2 x 15.2cm
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