Hannah Kline

Painting (MA)

Large pink and red painting, incorporating yellows, whites, and browns. The painting is a mix of abstraction and sewn textiles, along with painted renditions of textiles — "Baby It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" Acrylic paint, oil paint, jacquard weaving, screen printed linen, and oil pastel on canvas; mounted on stretched canvas 193 x 190 cm 2025

Magenta painting in portrait orientation, featuring woven textiles and embroidery — "The Party Goes On, But it Ends Eventually" Acrylic paint, oil paint, embroidery, jacquard weaving, and oil pastel on stretched canvas 150 x 120 cm 2025

Magenta painting in landscape orientation, featuring woven textiles and screen printed linen — "Quick Floss" Acrylic paint, oil paint, oil pastel, screen printed linen, and jacquard weaving on stretched canvas 95 x 115 cm 2025

Large portrait landscape multimedia piece of artwork on unstretched canvas, featuring bright greens and blues, along with several pieces of textiles within the composition — "Champagne Coast" Acrylic paint, oil paint, screen printed fabric, and oil pastel on unstretched canvas 187 x 150 cm 2025

About

Fantasy is an important space that I cultivate in my paintings, using color schemes that heighten and shed light on the invented aspect. Crafting a separate space from reality strengthens analogies to the experiences and perceptions of life. Painting an imagined space allows me to notice and forge new relationships to my own dynamic reality. The escapist therapy of painting reveals itself as whimsical and sensual alienating forms and landscapes.

My practice pushes to establish new visual connections and relationships that may not abide by conventions of physicalist hierarchies. In addition to sewing my own screen printed and hand-dyed fabrics into canvas, I reference fashion photography, drapery, and clothing for the majority of the painted composition.

By engaging clothing and textiles, both as a subject and as a physical material in my work, I investigate my personal relationship to the garment and fashion industry. Flora and fauna also show up in my work through fragments, increasing the presence of bodily forms and life.

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