Alumna Hannah Duggan Included in 2021 National Juried Exhibition

Alumna Hannah Duggan (2018) was recently included in the The Delaplaine Arts Center’s 2021 National Juried Exhibition. Duggan received the first place prize for her work, Misprints.

The Delaplaine’s Art Center’s 2021 National Juried Exhibition features works by artists from around the nation. The exhibition’s juror Margaret Winslow currently lives and works in Wilmington, DE, where she is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Delaware Art Museum. She has curated for the Neuberger Museum of Art and The Delaware Contemporary, and assisted with exhibitions for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. A virtual overview of the exhibition can be found here and a discussion of the exhibition can be found here. 

Hannah Duggan earned her BFA in 2018 from the Lamar Dodd School of Art and is currently an MFA Candidate at the  University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is interested in the translation or mistranslation of experiences that occur when printing digital imagery on porcelain tablets, inspired to appear as faux printer paper. The digital space is a vast archive of individual and social behavior. We rely upon digital interfaces to deliver essential information as well as for social interaction, especially considering how covid-19 has forced many people to quarantine and work remotely. Though viewed as a vessel of stability, the digital interface is actually unstable. The information contained digitally is constantly shifting, updating and refreshing. Despite its fragility, clay is one of the most archival materials, having documented much of human development. Translating digital imagery onto clay allows her to physically interact with information that would normally be limited to a screen. She can etch and add onto the clay tablet transfers as a way to add subjective thought and feeling to these often dense and less accessible aspects of the digital. This  materiality enables her to engage with her interest in the effect of technology on human experience.