You'll like Hanna if: you believe that friends are the family you get to choose
Hanna Brody paints to validate the expressions and emotional complexities of her
subjects. She chooses to paint primarily women, with the intention to transcend
superficiality and patriarchal ideas of sexuality, to make room for unapologetic
tenderness, empathy, and vulnerability. Brody uses color and paint application to imply a myriad of shifts in emotion, often centering anxiety, tension, discomfort, and connectedness. In doing so, she takes part in seeing and loving people’s complexities. She believes that if portraits had a soul, they would be innately selfless, with the primary purpose of moving those who gaze in their direction. They can show that many facets that people aim to hide can be shared, embraced, and universally identifiable.
Hanna Brody paints to validate the expressions and emotional complexities of her
subjects. She chooses to paint primarily women, with the intention to transcend
superficiality and patriarchal ideas of sexuality, to make room for unapologetic
tenderness, empathy, and vulnerability. Brody uses color and paint application to imply a myriad of shifts in emotion, often centering anxiety, tension, discomfort, and connectedness. In doing so, she takes part in seeing and loving people’s complexities. She believes that if portraits had a soul, they would be innately selfless, with the primary purpose of moving those who gaze in their direction. They can show that many facets that people aim to hide can be shared, embraced, and universally identifiable.
--Hanna Brody
