Hannah Ehrlich | Decomposition

Exhibition Dates: October 28 - December 2, 2023

Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Decomposition, by Atlanta-based artist, Hannah Ehrlich. This exhibition speaks to the impermanence of life, the cycle of construction and decay, and the balance between preservation and transformation. Through the use of remnants of upholstery and trim, doilies, artificial plants, and other discarded objects and materials, Ehrlich uses traditional craft techniques such as weaving, crochet, macramé, and sewing in order to recontextualize these materials that are inconspicuous and found in the periphery of our world. Viewers are invited to reconsider these materials and textile techniques’ significance and think about the layers of meaning they each hold.

HANNAH EHRLICH is a textile artist who studies unprocessed experiences, fractured memories, coping mechanisms, and the intricacies of human emotional survival through blending and distorting multiple textile practices. She utilizes paint, dye, and bleach on manipulated fabric to alter the material from its original, recognizable state, generating a desire to touch and understand the fibers’ change in nature.