HANNA BRUER
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Hanna Bruer relocated to Madison, WI in 2008 after earning her bachelor's degree with an emphasis in ​2 Dimensional art and photography at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point in 2008. Since that time, her work has come to prominently feature illegible text and abstract layers. She has permanent installations throughout the midwest, including Northwestern Technical College and Dane County Credit Union. Bruer has worked with the National Alliance on Mental Illness for their Healing Art Shows, earning Best In Show Finalist in 2015. She has provided live painting performances at the Majestic Theater and Memorial Union Terrace in Madison, as well as for Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery Nights. Her work and story have been featured in the Isthmus and Cap Times publications, as well as NBC15 News.

After a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder in 2013, she found continued solace in her artwork and began using it as a coping mechanism. On top of an abstract atmosphere, the most prominent, identifiable aspect of her work is the use of text as imagery. The text is often an essay to herself; unspoken words of frustration and discovery involved with her daily fight for resilience. The importance of each gesture, movement, word, and emotion reveal themselves in the layers of each piece. To combat self-doubt and insecurity, Hanna also offers her work as a performance, painting and baring her internal self in front of an audience. She converts a blank canvas into an active work of art, letting the bystander experience her creative process from the paint, to the thought, to the struggle, to the beautiful outcome.
Hanna Bruer
On the art of healing

Artist Statement

​Creation, contemplation, violence, destruction. My paintings are visual documentation of untold stories striving to find their voice. I draw my inspiration from inner dissonance, adverse experience, and unfailing resilience. Process holds the power to my work. I throw myself into each piece, attempting to unite the overbearing dichotomy of my being and to reach a temporary answer to an ever-changing question. Each piece is a complete thought jotted down and worked over until my brain has expelled its energy. The depth of my art lies in the impulse of the gesture, the emotion in the movement, and the pain of the unheard struggle. The use of text as image ties everything together to become not only a work of art, but an entire cathartic experience for both artist and audience. I aim for my work to inspire the viewer to wonder, to ask questions, and to reach inward for their own answers with reckless abandon. Dive in, design, emote, paint, expel, tell a story, repeat.

Press, Publications, and Links

October 19, 2018 - All Events in Madison: Live Painting by Hanna Bruer [link]
October 1, 2018 - Daily Cardinal: Live From The Nest [video]
September 2018 - MAMA Cares 2018 Winter Ball [link]
October 18, 2017 - Cap Times: The Art of the Sale by Lindsay Christians [link]
May 9, 2016 - Isthmus: Hanna Bruer [link]
May 6, 2016 - Cap Times: Even a Bank or a Dentist Office Can Be An Art Gallery On Gallery Night [link]
May 6, 2016 - Isthmus: MMoCA Gallery Night [link]
April 24, 2016 - Lauer Realty Group Feature [link]
October 16, 2015 - Best in Show Finalist, NAMI Healing Art Show [link]
October 1, 2015 - Isthmus: The Art of Healing [link]
September 26, 2015 - NBC15 Interview - [video]
September 4, 2015 - 100Arts - Laika Boss [video]
September 3, 2015 - 7th Annual SummerJam at the Majestic, Madison [link]
August 13, 2015 - 7th Annual SummerJam at the Majestic, Madison [link]
July 2, 2015 - 7th Annual SummerJam at the Majestic, Madison [link]
July 2015 - Isthmus: Biting The Silver Tongue [link]
July 2015 - Artist show at Mother Fool's Coffee House [link]
April 2015 - Donation to Eagle School of Madison [image]
November 2013 - Project Famous Magazine Interview [PDF]
October 2013 - RAW: Encompass Show [link]
October 2013 - Interview with Hanna Bruer at RAW: Encompass [video]
September 2013 - RAW Profile [link]

Artist CV

HANNA BRUER
​hbruer@gmail.com  |  
hannabruer.com  |  715-252-2787  |  Madison WI

EXHIBITION RECORD
[*denotes group show]
2018    NAMI Wisconsin's 12th Annual Healing Art Show, Lakeside St Coffee, Madison WI*
2018    Solo Exhibition, Hawks Quindel SC, Madison WI
2018    Solo Exhibition, Industrious, Madison WI
2018    Solo Exhibition, Synergy Coworking, Madison WI
2018    Fitch-Rona Art Crawl, Hop Haus Brewing, Verona WI
2017    In All This Vastness, Gib's, Madison WI
2017    Solo Exhibition, Hawks Quindel SC, Madison WI
2017    Solo Exhibition, Synergy Coworking, Madison WI
2017    Solo Exhibition, Alchemy, Madison WI

2016    Solo Exhibition, Lauer Realty Group, Madison WI
2016     Dead and Buried, Fat City Emporium, Madison WI*
2016     Homemade for the Holidays, Madison WI*
2016     Fat City Emporium's First Friday Show, Winedown, Madison WI*
2016     Fat City Emporium’s Gallery Night, Winedown, Madison WI*
2016     Fat City Emporium’s Inaugural First Friday Show, Winedown, Madison WI*
2016     Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery Night, Lauer Realty Group, Madison WI*
2015     Solo Exhibition, Knupp & Watson & Wallman Advertising, Madison WI
2015     Biting the Silver Tongue, Mother Fool’s Coffee House, Madison WI
2015     NAMI Wisconsin’s 9th Annual Healing Art Show, VSA Wisconsin Gallery, Madison WI*
                  Finalist: Best in Show 
2015     Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery Night, VSA Wisconsin Gallery, Madison WI*
2015     100Arts depART: Laika Boss, Madison WI*
2013     Solo Exhibition, Electric Earth, Madison WI
2013     RAW: Encompass
, High Noon Saloon, Madison WI*

LIVE PAINTING PERFORMANCES
2019   
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery Night, Hawks Quindel SC, Madison WI
2019   14th Anniversary Special Event, Bliss Flow Yoga, Madison WI

2019    Live Painting, Malt House, Madison WI
2018    Live From The Nest - The Daily Cardinal, UW Madison Campus, WI
2018    4th of July Special Event, Memorial Union Terrace, Madison WI  
2018    Live Painting, Malt House, Madison WI
2018    Private Wedding, Milwaukee WI
2018    DCCU's 84th Annual Meeting, Dane County Credit Union, Madison WI
2018    Bliss Flow Yoga, Madison WI
2018   
Fitch-Rona Art Crawl, Verona Vision Care, Verona WI
2018    Fitch-Rona Art Crawl, Hop Haus Brewing, Verona WI
2017    Live Painting, Malt House, Madison WI
2017    Private Wedding, Wausau WI

2017    Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery Night, Hawks Quindel SC, Madison WI
2017    Private Fundraiser, Chicago IL
2016    Dead and Buried, Fat City Emporium, Madison WI
2016    Homemade for the Holidays, Madison WI
2016
    Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery Night, Matrix Coworking, Madison WI
2016    This Is Our City hosted by Hive, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI
2016    Majestic Theater 8th Annual SummerJam, Session 5, Madison WI
2016    Majestic Theater 8th Annual SummerJam, Session 4, Madison WI
2016    Majestic Theater 8th Annual SummerJam, Session 3, Madison WI
2016    Majestic Theater 8th Annual SummerJam, Session 2, Madison WI
2016    Marquette-Atwood Art Walk, Lauer Realty Group, Madison WI
2016    Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery Night, Lauer Realty Group, Madison WI
2015    Private Fundraiser, Milwaukee WI

2015    Women Empowering Women Fundraiser, WE Int’l and Hawks Quindel, Madison WI
2015    Private Wedding, Lake Windsor Golf Club, Windsor WI
2015    Majestic Theater 7th Annual SummerJam, Session 4, Madison WI
2015    Majestic Theater 7th Annual SummerJam, Session 3, Madison WI
2015    Majestic Theater 7th Annual SummerJam, Session 1, Madison WI


COMMISSIONS, VIDEOS, AND PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2018  SunSeed Research LLC, Madison WI, Permanent Installation
2018  
Verona Vision Care, Verona WI, Permanent Installation
2018  Dane County Credit Union, Madison WI, Permanent Installation
2018  Video, "I Love You, I Steal Your Gas" by Mark Mallman and Dick Valentine, Live Painting Performance
2017  Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green Bay WI, Public Art Commission and Permanent Installation

2016  Validic, Durham, NC, www.validic.com, Corporate Art Commission and Permanent Installation
2015  Blue Gem Tattooing, Green Bay WI, Permanent Installation


PRESS & LINKS
2018   NAMI Wisconsin's 12th Annual Healing Art Show, short biography, Madison WI, October, pg 14.
2017   Lindsay Christians, "The Art of the Sale," Cap Times, October 18.
2015   NAMI Wisconsin’s 9th Annual Healing Art Show, short biography, Madison WI, December, pg 13.
2015   Laura Jones, “The Art of Healing,” Isthmus, October 2nd, Volume 40, #39. 32.
2015   Amy Carlson, Television Interview, NBC15 WMTV, Madison WI, September 9.
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2014   Etsy, artist profile with online store, since 2014.
2013   Jason Ocker, “Text, Trinkets, and Tape: A RAWesome Good Time,” Project Famous Magazine. 58-59.
2013   RAW: Natural Born Artists, Video Interview, Madison WI, October 17.          
2013   RAW: Natural Born Artists, artist profile, September.


EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, BA, Studio and 2-Dimensional Art Emphasis, 2008

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