Personal Record & Interpolation

HAIR + NAILS presents two concurrent solo exhibitions: Hannah E. Brown's Personal Record  and Sophia Chai's Interpolation.
 

HAIR+NAILS previously exhibited Brown’s ballpoint pen drawing at the NADA Invitational Art Fair in Chicago in 2019. This is her first show at H+N MPLS. Chai’s early polaroid photography of studio set-ups is currently exhibited in H+N’s group show FUTURE FUTURE. Her first solo show in the gallery will run concurrently with her solo show “Sight Lines” at Rochester Art Center.

The two artists each take a highly personal stance on the representation of the female body (often their own) and meticulously-constructed settings: gridded/architectural, blossoming, scratchy.

Gallery Hours: Thursdays/Fridays 3:00-6:00, Saturdays/Sundays 1:00-6:00 & by appointment through April 5
 

About Hannah E. Brown is a visual artist living in Minneapolis, MN. She graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2016, with a degree in Illustration. Currently she works out of her studio in the Powderhorn neighborhood.
 

About Sophia Chai is a Korean-American artist based in Rochester, MN. Before relocating to Rochester, MN in 2017 from Brooklyn, NY, Chai has shown her work at various venues in New York City. Chai is a 2019 recipient of the SEMAC (Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council) grant for advancing artists, a 2019/20 MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellow for Early Career Artists and a 2020 MSAB (Minnesota State Arts Board) Artist Initiative grant awardee. Early this year Chai mounted her first solo exhibition in Minnesota at the Rochester Art Center. Chai received an M.F.A. in photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Chicago.

Image Credits
Left: Untitled, Hannah E. Brown,  ballpoint pen on paper 30”x 44” 2019
Right: Untitled (t-square), Sophia Chai, archival inkjet print 40”x 50” 2020