"Finlator's work transcends some of the common assumptions of post-modernism by reintegrating the social with the personal and by genuinely exploring cultural traditions, rather than dismissing them as finished."
-Colby Caldwell (Introduction: Finlator: Artists and Sources of Influence, 2008)
-Colby Caldwell (Introduction: Finlator: Artists and Sources of Influence, 2008)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Société Imaginaire: Germany, Poland, Uruguay, US.
Artist in Residence, Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus, Berlin, Germany
Künstlerateliers Im Speicher II, Ist Offen '06 Collaboration with Claudia Sacher, Münster Germany.
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Hatton Gallery. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Split Panel, Tremont Street Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, US.
Queen's Hall, Hexham UK.
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC.
For exhibition history, see CONTACT.
Société Imaginaire: Germany, Poland, Uruguay, US.
Artist in Residence, Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus, Berlin, Germany
Künstlerateliers Im Speicher II, Ist Offen '06 Collaboration with Claudia Sacher, Münster Germany.
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Hatton Gallery. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Split Panel, Tremont Street Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, US.
Queen's Hall, Hexham UK.
Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington UK.
Corrymella Scott Gallery, Northumberland, UK
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC.
For exhibition history, see CONTACT.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born in North Carolina, Hannah Verena Finlator received a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington D.C. in 2000, and completed a master's in fine art at Newcastle upon Tyne University, England, in 2002 under the advisory of Prof. Gavin Robson and mentorship of multi-media artist Francis Gomila.
Finlator combined studio practice with an art history focus, studying the European Renaissance collections of paintings at the Corcoran Gallery, National Gallery of Washington DC Gallery, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Finlator's work gave rise to her principal source of reference: early wood panel painting, and women painters of the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. Finlator's interests in early painting formed the basis of her masters thesis in studio practice, "Artist and Sources of Influence", awarded by Newcastle upon Tyne University, UK.
In 2008 Finlator led a seminar with a keynote presentation at the Department of Art and Art History at St. Mary’s College in Maryland, as part of the college's artist residency program. Her presentation offered imaginative connections between early anonymous painting (the "Masters so-and-so) and first identifiable women painters, (ex. Katerina de Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, and Lavinia Fontana,) whose legacies are every day newly expanded upon and arouse new academic thought; whose artworks present for artists even richer meaning and knowledge today than perhaps other related professionals. The following year, Finlator exhibited a large scale diptych inspired by the family portrait composition of Anguissola's masterpiece, The Chess Game, at the Corcoran Museum of Art's final juried alumni exhibition.
Between 2002 and 2009, Finlator exhibit widely in Britain, and Germany. In 2010 Finlator presented a solo exhibition in Boston, MA. entitled, "Split Panel" which explored how diptych and triptych formats support elaborate narrative elements such as time and relationships, as well as stimulate an unorthodox viewer-artist relationship. Following a year-long British Arts Council exchange residency in Berlin, which culminated in her outdoor exhibition of multi-panel works- as part of city-wide "Lange Nacht der Bilder-" she relocate to the Rhineland city of Cologne.
Between 2010 and 2011 Finlator pursued study as an intern of restoration and conservation for painting and sculpture at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Cologne. Following this, Finlator was awarded a scholarship to continue at the Cologne Institute for Conservation Science where she audited courses in the bachelor degree program, before finally returning to her studio work with new material and inspiration.
Most recently, Finlator is undertaking a series of paintings which combine aspects of restoration practice with works including a structurally integrated 7-panel polyptych including a base predella. Her studio is in Raleigh, NC., where she lives with husband Andreas, daughter Lavinia and son Johannes.
After Catherine de Hemessen's Portrait of a Woman
oil on gesso board
9" x 12"
Sketchbooks, 1996 - 2009
Ambrosius Holbein (L)
Master of the Female Half-Lengths (R)
ink, paper
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