Hannah Alsdorf

Alsdorf’s work examines the tension between physicality and spirituality as these manifest in the temporal realm. Growing up in a religious, blue-collar and design environment, her artistic practice is an extension of her education in these areas. She uses found material, construction, craft and fine art media to mimic high ideals with both informed and laughable effort. Folklore, Judeo-Christian, and art historical themes serve as vessels for puns, where medium and context come together fortuitously. Her interest in kitsch and the trite are revisited to unveil their prophetic potential within the mundane. This is presented through the ironic and sincere handling of material and subject. Both serious and playful, Alsdorf’s role in the work is to simultaneously be the Cynic and the Naive; presenting unequal measures of pragmatic and romantic sensibilities.

Hannah Alsdorf (b. 1993) is a multi-disciplinary artist and house painter. She is an alumna of SUNY Adirondack and North Country Community College, as well as having studied Northern Renaissance art history at the University of Vermont. Alsdorf painted abroad at Savannah College of Art and Design’s satellite campus in Lacoste, France, and graduated with her B.F.A in painting from SCAD in 2019. Her work has been included in group exhibitions through out Upstate New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Georgia, France, and online. Currently, she is based in Upstate New York, where she was raised.

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