Meg Hahn

E: mmeghahn (at) gmail (dot) com

IG: @mmeghahn

STATEMENT

I make paintings and drawings based on observations from my surroundings and the process of painting. I am drawn to the subtleties and formal qualities found in pattern, shape, light source, and architecture, which I then construct through color and form. My work is composed by layering color, building forms through collaging geometric shapes, and constructing imagined shadows and lighting. By using a limited palette, I hope to create an invitation to look more closely and slowly. I view painting as a back and forth between organizing a steadiness, then creating a disruption.

BIO

Meg Hahn is a painter and arts organizer based in Portland, Maine. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; BUOY, Kittery, ME;  Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME; Dunes, Portland, ME; SOIL, Seattle, WA; and Collar Works, Troy, NY, among others. She has attended residencies at Surf Point, The Golden Foundation Residency Program, The Vermont Studio Center, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the Monhegan Artists’ Residency. Meg is also the Development and Special Projects Manager at SPACE and is a founder and co-director at Border Patrol, a curatorial collective, since 2017. She received her BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from Maine College of Art & Design.