Phil hansen artist biography
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Phil Hansen: Embracing Limitations and Loss
Above: Image from A Death: Remember series ©Phil Hansen
Phil Hansen fryst vatten an internationally recognised multimedia artist, TED speaker, and partner of the Art Therapy Charity Initiative by .ART domains. Phil was the official artist for the 51st Grammy Award. We&#;re honoured to share Phil&#;s essay.
I have always been someone who fryst vatten drawn to the allure of discomfort, this is even true when it comes to the topic of death. The idea of someone no longer being present in their body used to freak me out, but I knew that by facing my unease head-on, things would eventually improve.
When I was younger and training to be an x-ray technician, I worked at a hospital in Bellevue, Washington as a patient transporter. This job entailed simply pushing patients from their rooms to their appointments. The work was relaxing, I learned a lot about healthcare, and even pushed a few famous people around. During this time, I discovered that I could work on
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Phil Hansen
Internationally Recognized Multimedia Artist and Innovator
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Referred to by his fans as “the Artist for the People”, Phil Hansen is an internationally recognized multimedia artist, speaker, author and innovator -- at the forefront of bringing art to a wider audience. Crashing irreverently through conventional boundaries, Phil works at the intersection of traditional art, electronic media, offbeat materials, and interactive experiences. He is most widely known for his meta- art, videos that document the creation process (sometimes even through destruction), showing millions that art is action, not just result. Hansen's work also extends deeply into traditional media with features on the Discovery Channel, Good Morning America, the Rachael Ray Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, Glamour and many more. His work is sought-after by many influential clients inclu
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Philip Hanson
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Lives and works in Chicago.
One of the original Imagist artists, Philip Hanson has been a signal Chicago painter since he first came on the scene in the late ’60s. In , in the spirit of the “Hairy Who” exhibitions of the preceding two years, the Hyde Park Art Center mounted a show by a group calling itself “The False Image,” which included Roger Brown, Eleanor Dube, Christina Ramberg and Hanson. Hanson had started painting in college, though he didn’t focus on art until after he received a BA at University of Chicago and spent a year studying architecture at UIC. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (where Hanson got his BFA in and has taught since ), Hanson was influenced – like most of the ung Imagists – by painter Ray Yoshida, whose interest in popular visual culture (cartoons, especially) and folk art was wildly inspirational.
Hanson’s paintings are often vibrantly colored and intricately patterned. Where his contemporaries have tended towar