ARTIST PROFILE
Anina E. Hathaway’s artistic styles may vary but her ability to elicit emotional responses from her audience remains. Communication obstacles she has faced since birth, combined with her life-changing bilateral cochlear implant activation, have largely influenced Hathaway’s work. Her evocative compositions range from conceptualism to contemporary abstraction while often depicting her reactions toward socio-cultural norms. Abstraction allows Hathaway to project emotion and her use of chiaroscuro creates a language where she strives to inspire internal communication within her viewers unexplored emotional territories.
Hathaway creates dripping meditations on the nature of consciousness and perception. Similar to a liquid, awareness seems capable of taking on many forms as is determines the composition and arrangement of materials and objects. Following this, there is often a patina of obscurity in Hathaway’s work: a foregrounded layer that occludes a landscape or object situated directly behind it. As a compositional maneuver, the foreground allows that which lies behind it appear more tantalizing. The artist works with acrylics on canvas and digital prints to create her highly dimensional and textural scenes of abstracted nature and landscapes.
EXHIBITIONS
GROUP
2022 MAY EXHIBITION, Gallery Andrea—Old Town Scottsdale Art District, Scottsdale, Arizona
2022–2008 SPARK ASSOCIATE MEMBERS ANNUAL SHOW, Spark Gallery—Santa Fe Arts District, Denver, Colorado
2022 DREAMING MY DREAMS & SALLY ELLIOTT RETROSPECTIVE, RedLine Contemporary Art Center—RiNo Arts District, Denver, Colorado
2020 INSPIRE US, Cochlear Americas Headquarters—Denver, Colorado
2019 FALL EXHIBITION, High Alpine Brewing Company, Gunnison, Colorado
2018 RAW: DENVER PRESENTS MAGNIFY, The Church Nightclub, Denver, Colorado
2017 HOPE: THE HEALING POWER OF ART, Frederic C. Hamilton Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2017 LOOKING FOR COMMON GROUND, Canyon Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
2016–2017 WINTER ECLECTIC, Artwork Network—Santa Fe Arts District, Denver, Colorado
2016–2015 ARTS ON THE RIVER, Boulder County Arts Alliance, Lyons, Colorado
2012 CENTER CAMP EXHIBIT, Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
2011 SECOND FRIDAY ART SHOW, Phoenix Asylum, Boulder, Colorado
2006 CULTURAL SIGNS I + II, Medellin, Colombia
2006 SPARK SMALL WORKS OPEN SHOW, Spark Gallery—Santa Fe Arts District, Denver, Colorado
2006 MIXED MESSAGES, Workspace Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
2006 PAROXYSM: B.F.A. ARTS SHOW, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
2006 VISUALIZATIONS WITHOUT WALLS, Veracruz, Mexico
2004 BACHELOR OF ARTS SHOW, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
SOLO
2018 CORPORATE DISPLAY, 1755 Blake St., Denver, Colorado
2018 SOLO EXHIBITION, Industrious Denver, Denver, Colorado
2008 ARTWALK LONGMONT, Madifine Mercantile, Longmont, Colorado
2007 HALLUCINATION, Bacon Gallery, Springfield, Missouri
2006 HEARING VISIONS, Bacon Gallery, Springfield, Missouri
2006 NORTH WALL EXHIBIT, University of Colorado Art Department, Boulder, Colorado
2005 CHAOS, Dots on the Hill, Boulder, Colorado
EDUCATION
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting - University of Colorado at Boulder
2006 Bachelor of Arts in Art History - University of Colorado at Boulder
2010 Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Design - Art Institute of Colorado
HONORS & AWARDS
Special Collections, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Magna Cum Laude, Art Institute of Colorado
Certificate of Excellence, Art Institute of Colorado
Merit Award Scholarship, Art Institute of Colorado