Top Five Works of Art

(pssst! Shari! It's actually Friday! Aren't you proud of me???)

Top five works of art in my home right now:

1. Abigail Hanson (American, b. 2006). Yelling People with Lots of Eyelashes (2010). Mirror and Dry Erase Marker.

 

2. Abigail Hanson (American, b. 2006). Aliens (one with disappearing yellow head) (2010). Marker and Paper, taped to fridge by the artist.

 

3. Abigail Hanson (American, b. 2006). Alphabet with Traced Duck (2010). Pen and Paper.

About the Art: This piece was completed while in a church service. If anyone was at CTK on September 5th and heard a small child singing the ABCs while everyone else was singing their praises to God, you were privileged to have heard the artist as she was going about her work. Her mommy is very proud of her, despite the missed point of church.

 

4. Abigail Hanson (American, b. 2006). Floor Book Puzzle with Coins (2010). Installation with Books, Coins from various countries and game establishments. 

About the art: The artist had this installed in her room for the morning of September 16th. It was meant to be an interactive piece, where children could step from book to book (but not the library books), trying to keep the coins from sticking to their feet. As far as we know, the artist was the only child to get to interact with the piece before it was taken down.

For those unfamiliar with installation art: Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space. (wikipedia.com)

 

5. Abigail Hanson (American, b. 2006). Self portait, yelling, with picture of mommy, etc (2010). Collage using mirror, dry erase marker, paper, pen, newsletter, church craft, brad, crayons, tape.

Detail of the portrait of mommy follows. As this was apparently done in disappearing ink, some work has been done to digitally enhance the detail shown here:

6. Abigail Hanson (American, b. 2006). Untitled (2010). Non toxic paint, paper.

About the art: This piece won the coveted "Mommy's current favorite" award and is displayed in the fabulous frame that is used to display such decorated pieces of art. By the way, this frame comes highly recommended by the gallery.

Oh, did I say top five?? Oh well.

About the Artist:

Abigail Hanson is currently living in Birmingham, Alabama, where she was born in September of 2006. She enjoys creating art in all mediums. She also enjoys playing with friends, doing puzzles, playing games on mommy's phone, dressing up, playing pretend, sorting things, playing hide and seek, watching movies, reading books, going to the library, shopping with mommy, eating treats, gymnastics and almost all things Disney. Mommy doesn't understand how sometimes she seems so big and sometimes she seems so little.