Meg Hahn

Meg Hahn (born 1995) is an artist and arts organizer based in Portland. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the University of New England, Dunes, Zero Station, SOIL, Perimeter Gallery, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, among others. She has attended residencies at Surf Point Foundation, the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency Program, the Vermont Studio Center, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the Monhegan Artists’ Residency.

Currently, she is also the development and special projects manager at SPACE and is a founder and co-director at Border Patrol, a curatorial collective that started in 2017. She graduated from the Maine College of Art and Design with a BFA in painting and a minor in art history.

Artist Statement

My practice is rooted within the process of painting and drawing and influenced by the formal qualities found in my surroundings. I am drawn to patterns, shapes, and colors that I collect through observation, typically from architectural moments, and then I lead with material and texture, mainly with oil paint and colored pencil. More recently, I have composed my work by layering color, building forms through collaging geometric shapes, and constructing imagined shadows and lighting. I like to use a range of hues within the same color family to create an invitation to look more closely and slowly. Overall, I view making painting as a back-and-forth between organizing a steadiness and then creating a disruption.