Luminous

David Hannon

This solo exhibition by David Hannon features paintings that investigate the intersection of wonder and the everyday, creating visual narratives that challenge perception and invite deeper reflection. Carefully described forms and surfaces are balanced by the weightless spaces of the artist’s imagination sparking a rise from the familiar to the extraordinary. Luminous elements of paint emphasize points of significance and serve as metaphors for the polarizing forces of contemporary society—between creation and destruction, permanence and decay, luxury and waste.

About the Artist

David Hannon lives and works in Muncie, Indiana. Hannon earned a MFA in Painting from Indiana University in Bloomington and a BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design. Hannon is an Associate Professor of Art at Ball State University and has taught painting, drawing, and illustration there for the past 20 years. Hannon’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Tatistcheff Gallery in New York City, NY, the Joan Derryberry Art Gallery at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN, and the Leeds Gallery at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. Hannon has shown his work in small group exhibitions that include Two Dark Lines at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, KY and The Echo of the Object traveling exhibition featured at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery in Knoxville, TN, and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. Additionally, his work has been displayed in numerous national and regional juried exhibitions at institutions including the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH, the Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, OH, and the Illinois Institute of Art Chicago’s Gallery 180.