In the middle of nowhere | Hannah Israel

Reception: 13 August 2015 6:00pm

Hannah Israel maps the relationship of our existence by illustrating how fragile time can be and how predictable our experiences can be based on the temperament of the world around us. In her new series, Israel reflects on information as a form of abstraction.

Influenced by natural and cultural phenomena, Israel creates works that resemble the poetic seduction we find in nature in relation to the sublime. Kant's theory of the sublime is about the idea of transcendence: of the everyday, the transient, and the sensual. It represents the redemptive capacity of human understanding.

Hannah Israel lives and works at Columbus, GA, USA. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her work is across various interests including sculpture, installation, video, and mark making. Israel has exhibited her work at the High Museum of Art, Zuckerman Museum of Art, The Vargas Museum of Art in the Philippines, Museum of Contemporary Art in Honolulu, I-Space in Chicago, the Krannert Art Museum, among others.

Hannah Israel has received the Daedalus Art Grant (NYC), the Creative and Performance Art Fellowship at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, IL and the Artist Fellowship at Cornell University, NY among others. She has also curated numerous solo and group exhibition. Her works are collected in museums and private collection. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art and the Gallery Director at Columbus State University in Georgia.

Hannah is a visiting artist in School of Art's Sculpture workshop. www.hannahisrael.net