
Nights like Days like Don't Exist
2016
In "Nights like Days like Don't Exist," painted in 2016, Heidi Hahn constructs an intimate yet psychologically charged domestic scene in which a female figure appears in profile, her gaze fixed on a flickering candle and its reflection in a mirror. The doubling created by that reflection produces two nearly identical expressions of quiet forlornness, a visual echo that deepens the sense of interiority and unresolved feeling at the heart of the composition. Layered across the canvas, floral patterns of varying scale and color animate the surrounding space, at once grounding the figure in an everyday interior and destabilizing it, so that the boundary between the psychological and the physical becomes genuinely porous. Hahn works consistently within a territory where figuration and expressionistic painterly handling operate in productive tension, and this canvas is a confident example of that sensibility at work. The relationship between the anonymous figure and her environment is deliberately left open-ended, resisting narrative closure and inviting sustained looking. The floral motifs do not simply decorate; they accumulate meaning, suggesting both domesticity and something wilder and less containable beneath it. Oil on canvas at 66 by 61 centimeters, the work is compact in scale yet expansive in implication, a quality that makes it well suited to a focused, thoughtful collection. Hahn has presented work in solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York and Premier Regard in Paris, and has participated in group exhibitions at venues including Judith Charles Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, and Art Basel Miami Beach. The work is signed by the artist and currently on offer at The Kitchen.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- The Kitchen, New York, NY
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- Gallery · The KitchenView on map
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