May – July 2026
Gallery Saint Germain
– Artist Reception –
Thu, May 14 • 4-6PM
I paint women — not as they are expected to be, but as they are underneath.
My work draws from myth, archetype, and lived experience to explore what women carry, what they suppress, and what becomes possible when they begin to reclaim it. Across sustained series — from work inspired by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves to my most recent body of work, Becoming Whole — I have examined feminine presence, agency, and sovereignty through large-scale layered painting.
My process is intuitive and iterative. Figures surface through addition, concealment, abrasion, and revision. The surface retains evidence of dismantling and reconstruction. Paint becomes both material and record of transformation.
These paintings are an invitation to recognition. I am not asking viewers to understand the frameworks behind the work. I am asking them to recognize themselves.
Women are carrying so much right now. So much that has never been named, much less honored. This work is an act of witness. A place to stand still for a moment and be seen.
About the Artist: Heather Hanson
The paintings are the evidence.
Of the healing. Of the living. Of what it cost — and what it gave back.
I paint women. Figures and faces — some clearly defined, some dissolving into abstraction — that emerge through layers of mixed media as if they were always there, waiting to be found. People ask why I always paint women. Because she had been missing from me like a hole in my being. In painting her, I honor her. I heal through her. I declare the truth of her as sacred — in myself, and in the world.
My most recent series — Becoming Whole — is the culmination of nine years of living this story. Five large-scale paintings, each one built around one of Toni Wolff’s four feminine archetypes, plus a fifth of my own: the Individuated Woman. The one who holds all of them. Not a destination. A practice.
I also write — essays, poems, and a memoir publishing chapter by chapter on Substack. And I speak. Because standing in a room sharing this story out loud — watching people recognize themselves in it, watching them tear up — is its own form of the work.
Read More About the Artist Here!
Website: https://www.embracethespacebetween.com/
Location: Historic Lobby
HOURS*
Mon – Fri 10AM – 5PM
Sat 10AM – 2PM
*Also open 1 hour before most performances.
Always Free to Attend. Always Inspiring!