You Can’t Cry for Me, 2023, oil on canvas, 36 x 3 6inches, Hills-Stead Museum
Melinoe, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, Private Collection
Awakening, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
White Hollyhocks, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
“Inness Hancock paints not only landscapes in the natural world, but her experiences in them. She seeks that special connection between herself and her subject, between her paintings and their viewers.”
-WAG Magazine
Current and Upcoming shows:
Visual Aids at Berry Campbell Gallery, W. 26th St, NYC, January 2o
Solo exhibition at Downing/Yudain, Stamford, CT Opening Jan 26th-May 2
Hollis Taggart, W.26th St, NYC opening March 23- April27
Spanierman Modern, Madison Avenue, NYC July 2024
Solo Exhibition, 123 Main, Northeast Harbor, ME July-October
Sponsored Artist, Sotheby’s International Realty
Solo exhibition, Chroma Gallery, October 19-Nov 3
Upcoming talks:
Featured panelist Rockland Arts Festival, Inside the Artist’s Mind, Jan 29 online
Persephone’s Garden series explores themes of Women’s identities and sacred space held by women. Using the metaphor of the garden before Persephone was abducted by Hades, and historically cared for by women of leisure and/or servitude, and reimagining it as as space for safety, growth, reinvention. Bordering on abstraction and recalling American Impressionism, color worlds are invented and employed with subtlety and nuance.
The Weight of Silence, 2023, oil on canvas, 57 x 77 inches
“It is commonly thought that in Western Art, the interest in representing the landscape as a part of a painting’s composition cropped up during the time of the Renaissance. From the beginning, representations of the landscape have brought the viewer to virtually experience new places throughout time, offering a sense of discovery, a feeling of hopeful a better more peaceful world. More recently, a truer understanding of the force and fragility of nature has come to fore motivated by politics, profit, and pleasure.
Into the Falls, 2016, by Inness Hancock takes us to a place where representation and abstraction coalesce. Movement is key here, as thin veils of blue rain down upon the depths of a deep darkening pond. The contrast between the thin washes at the top and middle of the canvas, and the weight of the deep blue pool below anchors the composition and our thoughts as both time and thought wonder.”
-D.Dominic Lombardi, NY Times art critic, curator of LANDX, 2021
Persephone’s Garden, Narcissus’ Reflecting Pool, 48 x 60 inches / White Hollyhocks, 48 x 60 inches
White Hollyhocks, 2023, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, Private Collection
Spring iris, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches, Private Collection
Persephone’s Garden, Spring Irises, oil on canvas, 46.5 x 46.5 inches, Private Collection, commissioned work in client’s home
Garden of Earthly Delights, Private Collection / Angel Oak
The Waters: Psyche, Into the Falls, Private Collection, Contemplation, oil on canvas, each 60 x 48 inches
Down in the River, oil on canvas
Lilies in the Valley, oil on canvas, Private Collection
Lily, Lily, Lily, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, Private Collection / Hebridean Skies, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches, Private Collection
