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Artist Statement for Cherie Hanson
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Cherie Hanson: artist's biography
The kindergarten teacher hung the memographed outlines of rabbits around the perimeters of the class room.Then I saw I was “different”. My rabbit was wearing long, dark braids and a buckskin dress. There were no pale pastels and I had little concern for the lines given to me: I was focused on the lines of the image in my head. As a child, I dressed in layers of fabric and tulle to dance in the yard. I sang my own versions of opera; I drew; I wrote; I practiced being a circus performer on my two trapezes.
In Junior High and High school, I appeared in plays, continued to write poetry and draw. Upon graduating, I received the Hudson's Bay High School award for top art student out of a class of 368 graduates. I also received the Washington State Arts' Council Award for best Fiction awarded by the Chairman of the University of Washington's English Department.
University was a time that I explored all that fascinated me. I took a Bachelor of Arts in English, studied Modern Dance, minored in Fine Arts and worked on the college year book as well as contributing to the college arts publication. As a graduate student, I completed a Masters in English with a specialty of American Contemporary Poetry, and pursued studies toward an Masters of Fine Arts for Creative Writing. On week-ends I socialized with the teachers in the Fine arts department.
Now, after 25 years of my teaching English, Acting, and Video-making return to my urge to merge. I am exploring interdisciplinary expression: Color, movement, the vitality of perception.
My study of Buddhism has brought much of what I once saw as disparate elements together and given me a spiritual and philosophical structure to live and work within. The concept of “filters”, “ego”, the changing of what we perceive in the act of perception is now clearer to me. I revisit what I was alert to as a child. Intensity, shifting planes, shifting points of view, object as metaphor are all fascinating explorations in art and in life.
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