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Trial
Size is an exhibition of small abstract sculptural works.
The title comes from the size of the works and from their
prototype-scale model like qualities. I treated these pieces
like tests and gave myself some limitations. The number of
decisions, colors, and materials and time constriction are
some examples of these limitations. With this, I was able
to maintain a kind of openness from which narrative possibilities
can develop. I'm interested in letting materials interact
in ways that suggest relationships. I wanted the gallery to
feel like an imagined landscape or place inhabited by objects
whose scale as a group create a place of the imagination.
Small and miniature objects tend to lend themselves to the
imagination. When I think of objects of the imagination, I
think of the surrealist's use of psychic automatism and random
association to create form. I also think of Eva Hesse's absurd
objects and Franz West's Appendages.
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Lily Hanson
lives and works in Dallas, Texas. She was born in New Hampshire
and lived there until attending college in 1990. She received
her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA in 1995 where
she focused on printmaking and sculpture. She moved to Dallas
in 1998 to attend Southern Methodist University receiving
her MFA in 2000. Solo exhibitions of her work include Re Gallery,
And/Or Gallery, The Conduit Gallery, The University of Dallas
Haggerty Gallery, Eastfield College, and Moutainview College
in Dallas, The Cactus Bra in San Antonio, and The Lawndale
Center for the Arts in Houston. She has also been part of
group shows in Dallas, Forth Worth, Beaumont, Marfa, San Diego,
and New York. She received The Dozier Travel Grant from The
Dallas Museum of Art in 2007. Hanson used the grant to visit
The Sculpture Project in Muenster, Germany, Documenta in Kassel,
Germany and The Venice Biennial. Her work experience includes
teaching as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University,
Eastfield College, and Vermont College. She worked at the
Dallas Museum of Art from 2001-2006 as both full time and
contract preparator. Currently, Lily works as a private chef
and pastry cook. She has a studio at The Shamrock Studios
in East Dallas where she has worked for 13 years.
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