June Art Walk at Make.Shift

For the month of June, Make.Shift Gallery is excited to present new works by local artists, Hannah L. Rivers and Malissa Perry.

Hannah L. Rivers, originally from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has been involved in the arts since she was very young. She studied Studio Art, Art History and Dance at Western Washington University and has been working at Bellingham Frameworks since 2015. Hannah’s recent works are based off of aerial or satellite views of locations that have been created or altered by humans.

Each piece begins with blind contour drawings of an area and transforms into a finished, multimedia piece. The base reflects the unknown and uncontrolled actions from the hand, while the colors and detail are a reference to the original environment. This process, with its unpredictable outcomes, echoes the difficulty of controlling everything that happens to our surroundings.