Heather Hancock

Heather Hancock, a native of Canada who maintains a studio outside Chicago, Illinois works in the ancient technique of mosaic.  The artist’s work examines our “understanding of the importance of our surroundings to our well-being: humans thrive in engaging environments. Alongside the hard lines and repetitive forms of our cityscape, I notice the fluidity and constant transformations in our natural world.” Hancock references the documentary quality of black-and-white architectural photography but as the artist has gradually increased the scale of her artworks she has gone from directly confronting strategies of representation to subverting them to her own needs, willing pattern and rhythm to take the place of documentarian detail.  

Exhibitions With Ken Saunders Gallery