Stephen Hannock

Marlborough Fine Art is pleased to announce the first UK solo show of celebrated American painter Stephen Hannock, featuring completely new works in his large-scale landscape format.

Hannock’s first exhibition in London features thirteen new paintings including Northern City Renaissance, a winged and glowing view of Newcastle that explores the region’s rich history. A focus on mood and light, combined with exaggerated composition marks out a strong cinematic influence, achieved through a unique painting style.

Hannock employs an unusual technique to give his semi-imagined landscapes their recognisable luminescent quality, a method he has been developing and perfecting throughout his career. This approach involves layering subtly modulated acrylic paint across canvases, polishing each layer with power sanders, and applying a veneer of reflective resin, burnished to a matte sheen, that allows light to penetrate the stra¬tum of the picture and reflect an exceptional illumination.

The pictures are also covered with handwritten text—comments on the locations which give histories either personal to the artist or relevant to the sites. Hannock works these lines of text, which are not preconceived, into the topography of the image. Pasted materials are fixed in the layers in the tradition of papiers collés, a method introduced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque a century ago.

Hannock was born in Albany, New York in 1951, and now lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Hannock began his career as an apprentice to Leonard Baskin (1922-2000), and counts curator Robert Storr, the actor Robert Redford, and the musician Sting as major fans of his work.

Hannock’s work is found in public collections throughout the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and numerous other collections.

Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, has curated the exhibition. A fully illustrated colour catalogue, with essays and entries on the pictures by Dr. Rosenfeld will also be available.

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