Jellyfish Hannah StollDigital collage 18" H x 12” W 2023
Hannah Stoll (b. 1997, NYC) is an oil painter and current MFA Candidate at Boston University’s graduate painting program. Stoll’s work engages the convention of landscape painting with modern revelations in ecological thinking. Her paintings are built from layered glazes, observed contour, and invention. As the painting evolves she continually negotiates each element’s relationship to nameable forms. She conflates qualities of scale ranging from micro to macro, and reworks edges as membranes that merge or contain. Forms open up as deep empty space and/or breath and crawl as living things. The weave of fabric and the grain of pigment are laid bare while contributing to the depth and shape of an image.
Stoll graduated from Colorado College in 2020, and after taking up a studio practice in the Roaring Fork Valley, participated in a number of group exhibitions across the state. Stoll’s solo exhibitions Prospects (R2 Gallery, Carbondale, CO) and Together in the Dark (The Art Base, Basalt, CO) took place in 2022 and 2023, respectively. In 2023 Stoll became a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant and attended the GlogauAir artist residency (Berlin).