AVA Gallery May 10 to June 8, 2024/ The Vegetative Soul

Written By Joan Hanley

AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH- May 10 to June 8, 2024

OPENING: FRIDAY, MAY 1O, 5–7PM

Panel Discussion: Thursday, May 16, 5:30–6:30 pm

I’ve loved making the paintings in this exhibition and I’m excited to share them with you. In the fourth century, BCE Aristotle taught that human beings have a rational, animal and vegetative soul.  The vegetative soul’s powers were nurturance and growth.

In these paintings I paint my life as if seen by a plant in the room or a tree out the window. The plant point of view is a deep, less busy and less intentional approach to things. I’m exploring both the gifts and dangers of this unconscious, still, collective, non-verbal and unthinking consciousness.

Joan Hanley

Joan Hanley is an artist and mentor.  She has shown her paintings at the Brattleboro Museum, VT, the Mariposa Museum, NH, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, the Open Center NY, the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass, MA, and the Attleboro Museum, MA.

https://www.hanleystudio.com/
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