Homesick For Tomorrow

Sara Hannon

Jan 29 - Feb 19, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 29 from 5 -9

Sara Hannon’s Homesick For Tomorrow showcases a selection of new paintings and drawings by the artist. This body of work explores emotional and psychological states through the artist’s unique mode of abstracted figuration.

Sara Hannon is an artist living in Austin, TX. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. It was there that she tried desperately to be normal, but most everything she made was called “creepy.” She found this discouraging.

Shortly after graduation, while working as a waitress, she kept hearing the words of a jaded professor who declared to his first year drawing students, “The Art Institute puts out a fine line of waitstaff.”

Feeling like a commonplace failure, she enrolled in massage school. Although she didn’t like to touch people or be touched, she felt the calling to become a massage therapist.

She struggled for many years to rectify how she could be such a creepy artist yet also work in the healing arts.People said, “No, no, it’s a gooood creepy.” But she just thought, “Why can’t I just make a pleasant image!?” She believed it was a shortcoming of her soul that she could not draw a flower without adding a face giving the side eye.

As the years passed and massage turned out to be a good career choice for all of the free time it provided to make art, Sara began to embrace her inner self. She didn’t have to make pleasant images just because some imaginary person in her brain thought she should.

Making art during a pandemic has furthered this belief. She now believes she can express herself, dark side and all, because as a world of uncertainty swarms outside, she knows the investigation of self is solidly hers.

This is her first solo show.