Farm Projects
Hanni Woodbury: On To The Next Thing
A Collection of Works Curated by Robert Shreefter & Susie Nielsen
On view February 15 - March 10, 2025
On February 22nd, Woodbury will join Robert Shreefter for an artist talk in the gallery. Shreefter is a printmaker and artist, an artist-educator, curator and former gallery director based in Wellfleet and Brooklyn, MA.
Trained as a musician and linguist, artist and printmaker Hanni Woodbury is no stranger to abstraction. “Making abstract images on plates is a pleasing way of thinking for me. The challenge of trying to achieve in non-representational art the aesthetic clarity that is found in music is a constant, informing my efforts as a printmaker.”
In her upcoming exhibition at Farm Projects, curators Rober Shreefter and Susie Nielsen bring together a collection of Woodbury’s prints which highlight the broad scope of her practice, which ranges from woodblock and intaglio, to relief and monotype methods. Regardless of the technique, Woodbury’s compositions transform simple shapes into rhythmic, resonant abstractions.
About the Artist. Hanni Woodbury was born in Hamburg, Germany, emigrating to the US with her family just after the second world war. She studied music at Bard College and the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and earned a B.A. in Anthropology at Vassar College, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Anthropology, with a specialty in Anthropological Linguistics, at Yale University. Her area of interest as a linguist is the description, documentation, and revitalization of Native American languages, especially the Iroquoian family of languages which she has studied for more than 40 years. Her training in the graphic arts began more recently. She studied with a number of artists in New England, most notably, Brian Cohen, Marty Epp, Catherine Farish, Betsey Garand, Elizabeth Mayor, Peter Pettengill, Vicky Tomayko and Bert Yarborough, in classes at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, at the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT, at the Truro (MA) Center for the Arts, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout New England. Woodbury was one of the founding members of the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio and has participated in portfolio projects, copies of which now form a part of numerous private and public collections, including the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire and the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester New Hampshire, and the Berry Special Collections Library at the University of Vermont.