About Sing Hanson

Statement

I am a photographer by nature though trained as a painter, printmaker, and graphic designer. My fine art photography is digitally based but often includes handwork and more traditional media as well. In addition to standard print formats, I make artist’s handmade books, collages and 3-dimensional assemblages.

You will see that I often work in multiple digital layers that are akin to the glazes a painter might use or the gauzy layers of theater scrims and curtains. Or to sturdier archeological layers, where one suddenly finds fragments of precious artifacts unearthed from the accumulated shell mounds of our individual histories.

Certain objects hold uncommon power. I am interested in such iconic pieces and in their ability to transmit stories and values across time. My images tease the viewer, inviting further exploration of their uncertain contexts and mysterious histories. I believe there’s not much sense in trying to unscrew the inscrutable.

Bio

I worked in museums since 1967, home-based at Boston Children’s Museum where I served as graphic and exhibit designer, then (moving to the dark side) as an administrator for the exhibition program. In 2003 I left the museum world to pursue a long-awaited career in fine art and now split my time between a home studio and the congenial atmosphere of Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts in Concord, MA.

Studies at Smith College, Boston University’s SFAA, Mass College of Art and the School at the DeCordova Museum have all made their mark along the way.

My Medici is husband Carl, my muse is a yellow lab and my tidal pull from the west coast is daughter Siri.

Selected Exhibitions

2007

Concord Art Association, Frances N. Roddy competition, juried, winner

Logan Airport, Concord Art Association, Roddy on the Road, group, juried

Emerson Umbrella Art Center, “Retro to Recent Regardless,” duo show

Concord Art Association, “Photography, Drawing, Graphics, Crafts,” juried

Carlisle Library, “The Spirit of Collage,” Studio 7 Group

Dietrich Gallery, C7A, Cambridge, 35th anniversary show, group

Acton Memorial Library, “Recent Work,” solo show, juried

Indian Hill Music Center, “It’s Not What You Think,” solo show

Brookhaven at Lexington, “Recent Work,” solo show