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Featured in our booth at ☀️SPRING/BREAK☀️ Hannah Antalek’s work explores an imaginary post-human landscape with roots in science fiction and environmental crisis. Her works feature plant forms that are an amalgamation of real and imagined botanicals that have undergone a hypothetical evolution in reaction to a changing world and inhospitable environments. Through these speculative scenes, her work questions not only the positive and negative implications of humanity’s impact on nature, but the capacity for adaptation and resilience across all life forms. With humankind’s natural predilection towards fatalism and apocalyptic end-time predictions, these works are a reminder of nature’s cyclical metamorphosis and the seasonality of change. 

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Find us in Booth 1064!
625 Madison Ave, NY, floor 10

✨ Opening Night | Wednesday, Sept 6th, 5PM - 8PM
✨ Regular Show Days | Thursday, Sept 7th  - Monday, Sept 11th, 11AM - 7PM
✨ Tickets and more info, see link in bio or check @springbreakartshow 

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Hannah Antalek
'Saltmaker', 2023
Oil on canvas, 20 x 15”
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Let's meet Debbi Kenote! Kenote's works were included in our last show 'REARVIEW MIRROR' and our 2021 show 'SUMMER IDYLLE'. Today she's sharing some insights into her practice with us! 

❓Can you tell us more about all the exciting shapes of your canvasses? And your artistic process?

✨I started working with shapes while at the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. At the time I had recently completed my MFA in Sculpture, but I wanted to return to painting. I wasn’t inspired by the more common rectangular canvases, so I decided to try making my own. The last year or so I have been working with shaped canvases inspired by quilting blocks. I come from a family of quilters, and this is something I saw and lived with in my early life. I enjoy learning about the history of each quilting block I use, and I really enjoy the challenge of building the stretchers. I’m also interested in puzzles, and I like breaking down my larger shapes into multiple canvases that fit together. 

❓Is there a specific environment or material that's integral to your work?

✨Materially, I’m interested in dye. I began dying clothing in 2020, and since then I have been exploring the medium with raw canvas. I’m attracted to the effects dye has on canvas, and once the paintings are stretched, I really enjoy working on top of the dye. Working this way creates more depth in my paintings and allows a push and pull with the painted surface and the dye underneath.

❓How has your style changed over time?

✨My style has become more and more playful. I think the newest work I’m creating now has a vulnerability to it as well. I’m choosing to leave more of the dye work exposed, which is exciting. I’m realizing that sometimes less is more.  I’ve always been interested in color. The newest work is a bit brighter or more high key than the last body of work, which featured more pastels. 

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Works from left to right:

Rook, 2022, Acrylic on dyed canvas over shaped stretcher bar, 28 x 28”

Noontide, Acrylic on joined linen canvases, 81 x 61 in.

Hands All Around, 2022, Acrylic on dyed canvas over shaped stretcher bar, 28 x 28”
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