By
Hana Shoup
Piece description from the artist
"Holding Blue Hair I" a self-portrait. My motivation to examine this unique part of myself came from simple haircut. I created this after I cut my long hair and donated it to Locks of Love. However, before I mailed the locks, I photographed my hands entangled in the now severed hair. This drawing is based on those photographs. My hair is always changing, yet it its always a part of my identity. I like to dye my hair bright colors, from hot pink to cool blue.
I was born in the small town of Brenham, Texas. I drew constantly all through childhood. Animals were my first models, both real (my menagerie of pets) and fantastic (dragons and such). Despite this obsession with drawing, I did not pursue art as a career until college. During my undergraduate education, I studied drawing, painting, printmaking, and art history. I absorbed these subjects like a sponge, culminating in a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a painting concentration from Baylor University. I traveled abroad, and lived for five months in Florence, Italy. There I took classes in cooking, Italian, and Renaissance art. Upon my return the States, I dove into art again. I attended an intensive drawing “marathon” at the New York Studio School. I then moved to Baltimore. I was a Texas girl eager to see the East Coast and to attend MICA as a Post-Baccalaureate student. After that, I moved to Houston, TX, to earn my Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston. I currently live in Denver.
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