Artist Talk: Chloe Hanken

UW-Parkside is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring the works of Chloe Hanken, our current Artist-in-Residence in Printmaking. The exhibition will run from November 7 to November 23, 2025, presenting a compelling new body of work that investigates journeys and how superstition and magical thinking shape our understanding of entering the unknown.
Ever So Far from Here features prints that layer illustration with archival materials, and ceramic sculptures created as objects of protection. Through these works, Hanken explores stories of catastrophe and the locus where history and imagined spaces converge. Drawing from her background in natural history and ecology, she brings these perspectives to bear upon issues of loss, change, and unbelonging at the tail end of the American empire.


Hanken's largely collage-based practice creates imagined landscapes by layering meticulous drawings with textiles, land use archives, and medieval artifacts. The exhibition examines how prophecy, oracles, and systems of divination offer frameworks for meaning-making during times when futures feel out of reach, and how our desire to seek protection extends beyond the physical into the unseen. In these landscapes marked by transformation, the work traces the intersections of past and future, body and place, myth and self.


Artist Talk & Reception
Visitors will have the opportunity to engage with Hanken at the Reception on November 12 from 4 to 6 PM in the Foundation Gallery, followed by an Artist Talk the next day, November 13 at 11 AM in Bedford Hall at the RITA.