Archive of work by graduates from the renowned MFA Programme at GSA

Woman (disappearance)
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
25 x 25cm
2006
Night Scene 1
Oil on Canvas
109 x 150cm
2007
Night Scene 5
Oil on Canvas
127 x 158cm
2008
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
60.5 x 45.5cm
2008
Installation Shot, Tramway
Oil on canvas, MDF walls, pansies and fountain
2008
Installation Shot, Tramway
Oil on canvas, MDF walls, pansies and fountain
2008
Installation Shot, Tramway
Oil on canvas, MDF walls, pansies and fountain
2008

Levi Hanes

Levi was born in Oregon, USA 1977; raised in Juneau, Alaska and Washington State; received a Fine Arts Degree from the Clark Honors College, University of Oregon 2001; co-developed and directed The Warehouse Portland, Oregon 2001-2003; coordinated and curated group shows, played rock music, wrote online art reviews for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and exhibited.

Levi Hanes’ work is concerned with finding the charm in the mundane, the broken, the façade, and the misused. It is a bit sad, a bit happy, a bit tragic, a bit nothing, and inevitably something. While attempting the heroic, the stoic, the bold, and the beautiful the structures and the medium rhetorically expand beyond their means and collapse, somewhat comically, and lamely. What separates these pieces from the ironic or mockery of the mediums or subject matter is the genuine effort of the artist trying to make something work: To evoke sensation, emotion and thought.