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May 19, 2016
Hannah Bureau NOW ON EXHIBIT AT EDGEWATER GALLERY, MIDDLEBURY
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f you have seen her textural, softly geometric landscapes, OIL PAINTING FEELS A BIT OUT OF CONTROL it should come as no surprise that painter Hannah Bureau prefers grays. Before this description brings the word AND FREE FOR ME, VERY MUCH LIKE MY DAY “drab” to mind, know that with these grays Bureau builds TO DAY LIFE — A BEAUTIFUL MESS. vibrant impressions of a scene observed. Fields and sky are rendered in warm and cool grays, with strokes of lilac, EWLIR KVIIR ERH FPYI 'YVIEYƶW [MHI ǼYMH FVYWL WXVSOIW my father and grandfather who were both architects.” thick with paint, impart the richness in the memory of a landscape, while her palette acts as the soft haze of recollection. LI TYVWYIH EVX XLVSYKLSYX LIV IHYGEXMSR ǻVWX EX XLI 5YXRI] School, then Bard College and the Rhode Island School of “Each individual artist has a unique way of seeing color,” Design, and received her MFA in Fine Art from Massachusetts said Bureau. College of Art and Design. Bureau currently teaches painting at RISD in Rhode Island, and, as the mother of 3 1/2-year-old twin At the age of eight, Bureau moved from Paris to Cambridge, KMVPW WLI NYKKPIW E PSX SQI QMKLX IZIR GEPP LIV E LIVS Ƹ. WXVMZI Mass., with her family, in which she is “the fourth generation to bring art into my daughters’ lives as well as balancing time in of women painters.” As she puts it, she grew up “literally the studio with motherhood,” she said. surrounded by art and architecture. My mother and grandmother’s work hung on every wall along with sketches by SEE BUREAU ON PAGE 3