maëry lanahan
Exploring a complex inner landscape, maëry lanahan’s work offers an insight into the artist's quest for identity. She uses non-representational color and form to illustrate emotions, archetypes, and psychological exchanges.
For lanahan, painting is like looking into a windowpane and seeing the reflection of herself, the context in which she lives, and the fusion of these two. Using the canvas as a sounding board, she explores the human condition by extracting basic color and form from recurring memories.
Many of her works are between two and three dimensional, and figuration and abstraction, an attempt to create a reality which is parallel to, but separate from the real world. lanahan explains, ‘Because I choose when to show gravity, perspective, color and light, I am able to emote through them. I glaze thin layers of oil paint to create rich and luminescent shapes that interrelate based on the concept at hand. In some ways it is like the cloud watching we do as children. We tend to see in the clouds what is already within us.’
Education
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH:
BFAE, Magna Cum Laude
Antioch College, Seattle, WA:
degree?
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL:
degree?
Artists Studied Under
Anne Vaccaro
Body of Work
2007-current: Suspiration (available)
2016-current: Beholden (available)
2017-22: Flora (sold out)
2017-current: Sashay (available)
2020-21: Collisions (sold out)
2022-current: Arc (available)
2023-current: Pullulate (available)
2024-current: Oscillate (available)