BIO
As is immediately apparent in his bold and colorful work, artist Jeff Hand, who holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, grew up in a family of quilt makers. While spending most his life in the South, Hand recently moved from his home in Nashville to the New York City area.
Described as ironic post-Pop, his witty visual commentaries on current culture and historical art works are constructed from an enormous variety of materials - cloth, felt, plastic, fake fur - anything that can be molded, stitched or stuffed. After viewing Hand's most recent New York solo show at Plus Ultra Gallery, Ken Johnson of The New York Times described Jeff as a ..."conceptualist's comic." (NY Times 4/22/2005)
Hand's work is in numerous private collections in the East and Southeast, and is included in the collections of Whitney board member-Beth Rudin deWoody of NY, gallery owner-Marcus Kurt Deschler of Berlin, Germany & musician-Leon Russell of Nashville. It has been purchased for the permanent collections of the Tennessee State Museum and the Nashville International Airport & among his many commissions has been work for the Nashville offices of Mercury Records. He has had recent shows in Miami, New York, Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Madrid, Spain.
His work can be seen at the Anthony Spinello Gallery of Miami and at the Zeitgeist Gallery of Nashville.
