Christine Hanlon, whose work has been compared to that of Edward Hopper, creates ‘urban landscapes which quietly exude atmosphere.’
Overview, 2021
oil on panel,
8 x 24 inches
Broken Hydrant #2
oil on panel 20 x 25.5 inches
SOLD
W.T.H.G.O. #4
oil on panel 18 x 29.12 inches
Artists Magazine feature article
September 2009
Surrounded #2, 2022
oil on canvas
30 x 48.5 inches
Her painting is inspired by the Old Masters, especially their use of chiaroscuro and geometry, utilizing proportions like the Golden Section and other ratios to create dynamic and harmonious compositions.
Her work has been highlighted in the Artists Magazine, Sea History Magazine (cover and feature article), Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, and many exhibition catalogues including Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present, which toured museums and educational venues around California and Colorado for over 4 years (2009-2012). She also paints non-traditional maritime works such as Death of an Oil Tanker which won Best in Show at the Coos Art Museum’s 15th Annual Maritime Exhibit. Her maritime and urban work has garnered many awards over the years.
Hanlon received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1976 and her MFA in Painting from Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 1997, where she has been on the faculty ever since. She used her MFA thesis exhibition entitled Home Street Home, as a major fundraising event, attended by the mayor of San Francisco and news media, donating almost $1500 to the Coalition on Homelessness, with whom she worked over the years to create an annual art auction. She has lived on the southern coast of Oregon since 2012 but continues to show her work in California and locally in Bandon and Coos Bay. Her paintings will be featured in her first solo museum show at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon in 2022. Additional artwork, current exhibitions and a full resume may be seen at www.christinehanlon.com.
“I feel strongly about the artist’s role in society as witness to the state of our culture and the world. Many of my paintings have addressed social, political and environmental issues of our time such as homelessness, ecological degradation and the effects of climate change, including ever more intense forest fire seasons and the melting of glaciers and polar ice. I continue to use specific geometric ratios as the structure and invisible “armature” within which my narrative compositions exist.”
January, 2022
Decker’s Tug
oil on panel 18 x 29.12 inches
Coos Bay Commissioner’s Award 2006
Coos Art Museum Annual Maritime Exhibit
SOLD
Death of an Oil Tanker –
Prestige 1976-2002
oil on panel 11 x 11 inches per panel
Best in Show – Annual Maritime Exhibit
Melt Zone, 2022
triptych, oil on panel 12" x 12" each panel
12 x 36 inches (full size)
Third Street Corridor
oil on canvas
30 x 52 inches
SOLD
