Hannah Dunne “Hell is Well Lit”

Hannah Dunne is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and actor based in New York City. Working across sculpture, painting, photography, and video, her practice is rooted in an intuitive, hands-on approach that blends analog and experimental techniques. Her 3D pen sculptures—often vivid, textural, and bodily—extend into a larger visual language shaped by immediacy, accumulation, and material exploration.

Dunne’s work engages with themes of excess, distortion, and humor within a hyper-capitalist visual landscape. Drawing from the overstimulation of contemporary life, her practice reflects a world saturated with imagery, objects, and information. Her process embraces imperfection and density, allowing materials to build, clash, and overwhelm.

Her photography is observational rather than staged, capturing fleeting and often uncanny moments from everyday life. These images function both as documentation and as independent works, echoing the same sense of saturation and dissonance present in her sculptural and painted pieces.

Alongside her visual practice, Dunne works as a writer and actor, disciplines that inform her sensitivity to character, rhythm, and environment.

For her debut solo exhibition, “Hell is Well Lit,” Dunne presents a collection of new works spanning sculpture, painting, photography, and video. The exhibition situates the viewer in a space that feels caught between the natural world and a brightly colored, manufactured environment defined by excess and overstimulation.

Special Live performances by Elizabeth De Razzo and Martina Gordon

Live music by :
Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher, Draye Wilson
DJ Practice spinning tunes all night long

Heather Benjamin custom face painting for attendees.