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Bop Stop Studios Presents
ARTWORK by Samuel Burbury Hanchett |
About
My work doesn't have a conscious message. I rarely paint with specifics or with an exact expected outcome. With that said I do desire the viewer to derive something that they can take away and feel, even though they might not be able to put it in words.
Biography
Born in 1976 in Long Island, New York. Majored in studio art and minored in art history at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. Studied art abroad through Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.
I’ve been painting for about fifteen years. Usually the images come from within; but even when using a picture or an object for inspiration, what I end up with is something I couldn’t have conceived of before beginning. The creative process itself proves most exciting for me when I take risks: proceeding more by instinct, much like an athlete does. My hope in letting my intuition lead in the creative process is that those unplanned brush-strokes will blend with the ones that are also intended, thus drawing the chaotic into something solid and contained. As an artist, this approach allows me to directly explore those strange, primitive inklings in opposition within me and presumably, us all. Once this combination of work, paint and energy concludes in breaking through, I become its viewer also, and what I find that this form of expression can do for us is to make possible a way to say or feel something significant that could only be conveyed through this language of paint and the surface it has been applied to.
Solo shows - Atomic Cafe, Gulu-Gulu Cafe, The Stone Church, Diesel Cafe.
Group shows - Christ Church, Mingo Gallery, Kevin Porter Studio/Gallery.
My work doesn't have a conscious message. I rarely paint with specifics or with an exact expected outcome. With that said I do desire the viewer to derive something that they can take away and feel, even though they might not be able to put it in words.
Biography
Born in 1976 in Long Island, New York. Majored in studio art and minored in art history at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. Studied art abroad through Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.
I’ve been painting for about fifteen years. Usually the images come from within; but even when using a picture or an object for inspiration, what I end up with is something I couldn’t have conceived of before beginning. The creative process itself proves most exciting for me when I take risks: proceeding more by instinct, much like an athlete does. My hope in letting my intuition lead in the creative process is that those unplanned brush-strokes will blend with the ones that are also intended, thus drawing the chaotic into something solid and contained. As an artist, this approach allows me to directly explore those strange, primitive inklings in opposition within me and presumably, us all. Once this combination of work, paint and energy concludes in breaking through, I become its viewer also, and what I find that this form of expression can do for us is to make possible a way to say or feel something significant that could only be conveyed through this language of paint and the surface it has been applied to.
Solo shows - Atomic Cafe, Gulu-Gulu Cafe, The Stone Church, Diesel Cafe.
Group shows - Christ Church, Mingo Gallery, Kevin Porter Studio/Gallery.