Hannah Franco

S1.26 Host Art

S1.26 Host. 2024. Hannah Franco. Oil and mixed media on canvas. Maple float. 16" x 12" x .075". Featured in Broken Dishes, a solo show by Hannah Franco at the Erica Tanov Atelier during the spring of 2025. Hannah Francos geometric oil paintings are inspired by the quilts of her grandmother. They visually depict the stories of the female lineage in her family, breaking down the worth of craft and other undervalued womens work in American culture. Hannah earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and recently completed studies on frescos in Florence, Italy. Based in Oakland, California, she works primarily with oil and encaustic. As an abstract painter, she is drawn to the interplay of opposites and the ways in which we can shift our perspectives on gender roles and traditional women's work through the visual tools of fluidity and structure. Type: art