FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hannah Ehrlich: Decomposition Exhibition Dates: October 28 - December 2, 2023 Opening reception Saturday, October 28th, 2-5 pm at Sandler Hudson Gallery Artist Talk at Sandler Hudson Gallery, December 2nd, 2pm Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition Decomposition, by Atlanta-based artist, Hannah Ehrlich.This exhibition speaks to the impermanence of life, the cycle of construction and decay, and the balance between preservation and transformation. Through the use of remnants of upholstery and trim, doilies, artificial plants, and other discarded objects and materials, Ehrlich uses traditional craft techniques such as weaving, crochet, macramé, and sewing in order to recontextualize these materials that are inconspicuous and found in the periphery of our world. Viewers are invited to reconsider these materials and textile techniques’ significance and think about the layers of meaning they each hold. HANNAH EHRLICH is a textile artist who studies unprocessed experiences, fractured memories, coping mechanisms, and the intricacies of human emotional survival through blending and distorting multiple textile practices. She utilizes paint, dye, and bleach on manipulated fabric to alter the material from its original, recognizable state, generating a desire to touch and understand the fibers’ change in nature. Ehrlich received a BFA in Textile and Fiber Arts from The Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia in 2017. After having graduated, she began her studio practice in Atlanta, GA. She was recently selected to be an Artist-in-Residence at the NARS Foundation Season III International Residency in Brooklyn, New York where she used the opportunity to develop ideas and create the work for her solo exhibition “Decomposition” at Sandler Hudson Gallery. Solo Exhibitions Include: Decomposition, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Altered, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA; Clearing: a fertile exhale, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Manifestation Of The Wandering Mind, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; The Stillness You See, Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA; Foreground, The Mast, Atlanta, GA.
CV Education: The Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia - B.F.A. Textile and Fiber Arts -2017 Solo Exhibitions: 2023 Decomposition, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2023 Altered, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA 2023 Clearing: a fertile exhale, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2020 Manifestation Of The Wandering Mind, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 2019 The Stillness You See, Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA 2019 Foreground, The Mast, Atlanta, GA
Group Exhibitions: 2024 (forthcoming), TBD, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY 2023 (forthcoming), Gathered VI, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA 2023 (forthcoming), TBD, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY 2023 (forthcoming), Art Auction 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA 2023 (forthcoming), TBD, Hartsfeild-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Ga 2023 Shadow-work, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY 2023 Apprentice Show, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA 2023 A Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition, The Arts Council, Fayetteville, NC 2023 Entwined, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA 2023 24th Annual Art Papers Auction, Factory Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 2023 Fresh Start, Cat Eye Creative, Atlanta, GA 2022 Seasons Changing, Cat Eye Creative, Atlanta, GA 2022 Preface, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA 2022 Contemporary Landscapes, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA 2022 Straight From the Heart, Cat Eye Creative, Atlanta, GA 2022 23rd Annual Art Papers Auction, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA 2021 EngageMINT, MINT, Atlanta, GA 2021 Decatur Arts Alliance Juried Show, Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA 2020 Detritus, Virdian Artists, New York, NY 2020 30 Under 30, Curated by Kelly Kivland, Viridian Artists, New York, NY 2020 Women's Work. The Lola, Atlanta, GA 2020 Gallery Walk, Terminus, Atlanta, GA 2019 Annual Hambidge Art Auction, The Works, Atlanta, GA 2019 From the Artist's Co/lection, MINT, Atlanta, GA 2019 Singing the Body Formless and Electric, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA 2019 Exhibition 6, BrightHouse, MINT, Atlanta, GA 2019 Emerges XII Exhibition, Athica Athens Institute, Athens, GA 2019 Summer Swan Invitational, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA 2019 Artist Journey Group Show, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 2018 Fresh Blood, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 2018 Callanwolde Juried Art Exhibition, curated by Stephanie Smith, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA 2018 Georgia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, curated by Michi Meko and Laura Bell, Abernathy Arts Center, Sandy Springs, GA 2018 Textile Landscapes, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA 2018 Warm Days, Cool Nights, Classic Center, Athens, GA 2017 Future Tense, MK+ AB Gallery, Portland, OR 2017 Weave Dyed: BFA Exit Show, Dodd Galleries, Athens, GA 2017 42nd Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House, Athens, GA 2016 Art of Portraiture, KA Artist's Shop, Athens, GA 2016 Georgia Sewn/Athens Fashion Co/lective Spring Showcase, Athens Cotton Press, Athens, GA 2016 Gallery Exhibition, Athens Academy, Athens, GA 2015 Mostra, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Cortona, Italy 2015 Annual Poplar Exhibition, Poplar House, Athens GA 2014 Juried Student Exhibition, Dodd Galleries, Athens, GA 2013 Foundations Exhibition, Dodd Galleries, Athens, GA
Awards: 2018 Best in Show, Fresh Blood, Mason Fine Art 2018 1st Place, Georgia Artists: Juried Exhibition 2018 2017 Outstanding Student Award, Surface Design Association 2016 Merit Award, 42nd Juried Exhibition 2016 2016-2017 President of Textile Design Society, University of Georgia 2013-2014 Kuzmicki-McCutchen Memorial Scholarship
Publications: 2023 Burnaway, Review of "Clearing: a fertile exhale" 2023 ArtsATL Feature Review of "Entwined" 2019 Art Papers Spring/Summer 2019 2019 Artist Q&A with Rigby Ink 2018 Atlanta Magazine, Pinewood Idea House 2018 Common Creativ ATL