Philip Hanson

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.