Graceful Women in Shades of Blue by Hanna Lee Joshi Express a Desire for Autonomy
“All That Has Come Earlier than” (2022). All photographs © Hanna Lee Joshi, shared with permission
With lengthy, elegant fingers and brawny limbs, the ladies that outline Hanna Lee Joshi’s gouache and coloured pencil works transfer by way of the unknown and indiscernible with energy. The Vancouver-based artist renders nameless figures in movement, whether or not dancing collectively or gracefully gliding by way of water, on their seek for higher autonomy and success unobscured by political, cultural, and social impositions. Compared to her earlier sequence, Joshi’s most up-to-date items rely extra closely on shades of blue and use extra refined gradients to contour a leg or elbow.
A reference to self-portraiture and a subversion of traditions surrounding nude figures, every of the works is “a way of reflection, a manner for me to distill down the tangible and intangible experiences of my life,” she says. “In a manner, they’re an extension of myself, portraits of feelings, explorations of unanswerable questions, a manner for me to know on the immensity of life.”
Joshi has a solo present slated for December at Thinkspace Projects, and “Delicate Veil of Being” is on the market as a limited-edition print in her shop. Discover extra of her introspective works on Instagram.
“Wild and Free” (2022)
“Each Final Drop I”
“Belonging”
“Each Final Drop II”
“Each Final Drop III”
“Delicate Veil of Being”
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