Alanna Hernandez
Now You’re Alright
Alanna Hernandez (b. 1988) grew up on Cape Cod and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010. Her work is a culmination of a combination of formal education in the arts and humanities, training in yoga and meditation, and self-taught art skills. She moved to Midcoast Maine in 2018 and currently resides in Union, Maine.
Hernandez creates abstract work about trauma and connection. She is interested in how trauma is felt in our bodies, how it interrupts our lives, and how it ripples down through communities and generations. She explores the dynamics of human relationships and how power, compromise, and connection shape our experience. She uses abstract ribbon forms that are interrupted, pushed, pulled, or otherwise altered by external objects to explore these ideas. Moments of tension occur between the ribbons and these objects, or the ribbons and themselves. Ribbons flow together: soaring, splitting, and dancing back and forth in a movement of give and take. She creates her drawings with layers of crosshatched colored pencil and wax pastel. It's a meditative process that results in a soft, textured work, and invites the viewer to look slowly, and stay present.
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