Elias Hansen (b. 1979, Washington, US) lives and works in Tacoma, Washington State, US. He graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA – Printmaking and book arts, US (1997); New Orleans School of Glass and Print, New Orleans, US (2001); and Larson Red Angus Ranch, Big Timber (2001).
Hansen creates interactions between objects fraught with cryptic emotional and psychological implications. Most of his works look like a cross between a rural meth lab and an antique apothecary shelf, integrating colourful blown glass, melded and fused metal, and ageing, unvarnished wood. Using the works’ intimate and evocative titles, viewers are out on the spot where the words make sense of the uncomfortably familiar objects. His titles are all phrases or sentences designed to evoke a feeling without designating an exact storyline.
Hansen’s work is included in several public collections, such as Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, US; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US; Boise Art Museum, Boise, US; and Coleccion Jumex, Mexico.
