About
We can never truly keep up with the pace of how mass communication enables us to view global and national news coverage. Headlines, text and photos introduce us to monumental world events contradicted by viewing them on such a small, uniform scale at a fast, impersonal flow. I work from appropriated images and text which enables interaction with and filtration of current events through the lens of an individual spectator. Each painting I create is a less perfect, reiteration of the image just as each image we view of news coverage is a mediated image, lacking context and to an extent authenticity. Prevalent in both my ceramic work and paintings is the need to slow down and intimately work with traditional mediums to recreate these mass media images and text in an intimate and slow manner, directly countering the fast, impersonal pace of news coverage. My work can serve to memorialize and contemplate representation of past events outside of the usual context and pace, but there is an evident contradiction in that despite each image or text I choose to appropriate, other images and texts are overlooked. In an increasingly globalist reality that values the concept of the engaged or global citizen, I am interested in the contradictions and moral ambivalence that arise in news coverage and how, we, as distanced spectators, can contemplate and comprehend global and national events we can feel alienated from.
EDUCATION
• 2022 Master of Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
• 2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of Georgia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• 2020 Graduate Project Assistant
University Museum of Contemporary Art
• 2019- Teaching Assistant
University of Massachusetts- Amherst
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• 2020 A Ceramics Exhibition, The In Art Gallery, Online Exhibition (Juror: Professor Mathew McConnell)
• 2019 Wherever I may be the sky is mine, Herter Gallery, Amherst MA (Curated by Professor Young Min Moon)
• 2019 A Room of Their Own: OCAF Summer Installation, Watkinsville, GA (invitational)
• 2019 Residency Conclusionary Exhibition, Horlock House Art Gallery, Navasota, TX
• 2018 Chautauqua School of Art Annual Student Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
(Curated by Professor Don Kimes)
• 2018 Members Show, Oconee County Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
• 2018 Full House, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA
• 2018 Everybody talking at once, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
• 2017 Text and Image, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Edith Newhall, Critic, Philadelphia Inquirer)
• 2017 EMERGE: an Intercollegiate Art Student Exhibition, Blue Mark Studios, Atlanta, GA (Jurors Brian Seay, Director of Blue Mark Studios, and Anne Weems, gallery manager at Hathaway Gallery)
• 2017 Reflections of 2016, Kelwood Contemporary Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (Juror: Jennifer Carwile)
• 2017 La Mostra, Lamar Dodd Gallery Space, Athens, GA
• 2017 “All Women” art exhibition, Light Space & Time Art Gallery, Online
• 2016 La Mostra, UGA Cortona Gallery Space, Cortona, Italy
• 2016 Fl3tch3r Exhibit, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN (Juror: Eric Avery)
• 2016 “No Theme” Art Contest, International Gallery of the Arts
• 2016 Foundations Show, Lamar Dodd Gallery Space, Athens, GA
• 2016 HPSC UGA Art Competition Winners, Turner Gallery, Athens, GA
• 2016 Student Art Competition Art Show, Botanical Garden Visitor Center, Athens, GA
• 2015 Foundations Show, Lamar Dodd Gallery Space, Athens, GA
RESIDENCIES
• 2018 Navasota Artist in Residence, Navasota, Texas
• 2018 Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, New York
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
• 2018 People's Choice Award, Members Show, Oconee County Arts Foundation
• 2018 Thompson Summer Fellowship
• 2016 Cortona Art Incentive Scholarship
• 2016 1st Place, State Botanical Garden of Georgia Annual Art Competition
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• 2019 "Art & Life with Hannah Duggan" VoyageHouston, January 23
• 2018 Represented Artist, Friend of the Artist magazine: Volume 5
• 2017 Hannah Duggan, artistaday.com daily feature, October 13,
• 2017 “School of Art Students Create Mural in Rutledge, GA” Lamar Dodd School of Art, May 21
• 2017 Tia Lynn Ivey ,“The Wall of Honor” Morgan County Citizen, May 16,
• 2017 “Oil Paintings by Hannah Duggan” Amperstand Literary, March 13,
• 2017 “Artists use work to reflect on 2016 in new show” Dig Baton Rouge, March 1st
• 2016 “2016 Fl3tch3r exhibit catalog” Reese Museum
COLLABORATION AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
• 2017 I'd rather be in Tignall mural, North Wilkes Steering Committee, Tignall Ga
• 2017 Snelling Dining Commons word space mural, Athens, GA
• 2017 Wall of Honor, Veterans' Mural, Rutledge, GA