Assemblage by Michael Hanna

Michael Athanasius Hanna is an assemblage artist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and publisher originally from Jersey City, New Jersey who has been creating art since the age of eight. He has exhibited in the United States and Europe as well as been featured at large exhibition spaces such as The Colonnade: Performing Arts Theatre in Ringgold, Georgia, the Victoria Gallery in Paterson, New Jersey, and the Atrium Gallery in Morristown, New Jersey. Notable shows in New York include a solo exhibit in Chelsea at the Wix Gallery and a one year exhibit at Hogarth Worldwide on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Other noteworthy exhibitions include Space - Millepiani in Rome with a published catalogue and the Artists’ Guild in St. Louis. Additionally, he has regular solo exhibitions at The Colonnade: Performing Arts Theatre twice a year in the winter and summer. Michael has been published by The London Group, ArtonWorld Magazine, Saatchi Art, the New York Times, Hartford Courant, Daily Record, and the Jersey Journal. He works out of his art studio located in North Georgia and has been serving as the Editor & Curator of Titan Contemporary Publishing since 2014.

As a writer and publisher, Michael has been consistently complimented on his detailed yet direct approach to art writing, largely devoid of plastic language. Such a style of critical analysis has been covered in two publications under Titan Contemporary Publishing: The Artist Feature Catalogue and Titan Contemporary Journal. The catalogue features curatorial essays on established artists from around the world while the journal focuses on contemporary art discourse and philosophy. Michael’s purpose as a publisher remains to provide critical commentary and content on the newest contemporary art available by publishing on multiple formats including on the TCP website, Substack, and in linen wrap hardcover book editions.

Catherine Nessworthy, an art, film, & entertainment writer based out of Cape Town, South Africa describes Michael Hanna’s portfolio by stating: “Sea glass appears not as embellishment, but as talisman. Photographs taken in the silent blue hush of aquariums become portals to a deeper interiority. Black inked lines of prose drift across the canvas like currents over the ocean floor, while pale words etched in grey ink recede like whispers swallowed by surf. These are artworks that breathe in the rhythms of the tide—ebb and flow, emergence and retreat. Even in their stillness, they hum with movement, each detail a trace of something just out of reach: a memory submerged, a voice unheard, a glimmering truth too fluid to hold”.

Additionally, Editor in Chief of ArtonWorld: International Magazine of Art & Finance, Carmelita Brunetti writes: "The visual and conceptual work of artist Michael Hanna stands out for its rare ability to transform observation into poetry—and poetry into image. His creations…are visionary translations where matter, light, and words interact in a lyrical and conceptual unity...Each photograph is accompanied by verses that do not merely illustrate but evoke. Hanna doesn’t describe what he sees—he deciphers and reinvents it. His underwater world—filtered through the curved glass walls of the aquariums—is a mental ecosystem, a synaptic landscape that stimulates the brain's regions tied to wonder and empathy".