Artwork Description
Heidi Hahn – I Understand Loneliness Through the Memory of My Name #2
Dimensions: 30 x 21″ paper
Year: 2016
Medium: 5-color lithograph
Edition: ed. 21/30
The complete title of this lithograph is “I Understand Loneliness Through the Memory of My Name.” The print is offered framed, and it was printed by Landfall Press–the first institutional print shop in the country. It was founded at Kansas City Art Institute by master printer Jack Lemon. Lemon, now 90, ran Landfall press for more than 50 years. It became one of the four top print publishers in this country, first based in Kansas City, then in Chicago, finally in Santa Fe, NM. Our organization handles the Landfall Press Archive.
Heidi Hahn holds an MFA from Yale School of Art, and has shown at some of the most esteemed venues in the world, including Art Basel and Art Basel Miami, and both the Nerman Museum and the LSU Art Museum. She has been written about in Art Forum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic. Her paintings sell for as high as $50,000.
This work is highly representative of Hahn’s style. It features atmospheric, lyrical composition, paired with dream-like color combinations. Hahn regularly incorporated the female body into her work, as she is doing in this print. She seeks not a realistic depiction of a place or narrative; rather an interior, subconscious feeling of familiarity.