Christine Hanlon

Christine Hanlon is a representational painter who  received her BFA in Painting from RISD in 1976 and her MFA in Painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 1997, where she has been on the faculty ever since. (began teaching online in 2007). She used her MFA thesis exhibition entitled Home Street Home, as a major fundraising event, attended by the mayor of San Francisco and news media, donating almost $1,500 to the Coalition on Homelessness. She has lived on the southern coast of Oregon since 2012. Her first solo museum show at the Coos Art Museum in 2022, was entitled Anthropocene Legacy.

Her work has been highlighted in the Artists Magazine, Sea History Magazine (cover and feature article), Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, and many exhibition catalogues including Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present, which toured museums and educational venues around California and Colorado for over 4 years. Her painting entitled Death of an Oil Tanker:Prestige won Best in Show at the Coos Art Museum’s 15th Annual Maritime Exhibit. She won First Prize with her gouache painting entitled "Conflagration" in a fall 2024 show at Art by the Sea in Bandon.

“I feel strongly about the artist’s role in society as witness to the state of our culture and the world. Many of my paintings have addressed social, political and environmental issues of our time such as homelessness, ecological degradation and the effects of climate change."

 

Conflagration

 

   

WTHGO #4: oil on panel

 

Fires - Climate Change