ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hannah Yanetsko is a contemporary artist known for her Silver Swims series and her striking aerial paintings of figures adrift in her Other Oceans series, where she captures the profound beauty of fluidity, motion, and interconnectedness.

She lives and paints from her home studio in North Carolina with her three young daughters, Adeline, Eleanor and Florence.

About the work

SILVER SWIMS

Hannah Yanetsko’s Silver Swims series draws viewers beneath the surface, where forms interlace, shapes flicker and dissolve, blurring in and out of focus, a symphony of silvers, a metronome of pulse, seen and felt.

Compositions are built in layers, high notes and low notes, inhales and exhales begin to fill the space, gradually revealing the push and pull of fighting and surrendering —seeking, revealing, softening—until the song and dance emerges, until the movement feels like a hundred whispered prayers and longings.

Humble and grand.

The spaces between forms carries quiet conversations between what is seen and what is felt. Each piece holds the tension of fluidity and form, of fight dissolving into rest.

A space of prayer, longing, grief, and joy, where the artist pours herself out until the friction of the heart is worked through, until the moment of completion arrives. This work is deeply personal. A forsaking of expectation, a stepping away from what is certain, a pouring out without reservation. Her work is this labor, this trust, this walking out of faith. It is the unseen made visible—the wrestling and the releasing, the knowing and the unknowing. It is surrender.

ABOUT THE WORK

OTHER OCEANS

Her earlier, aerial view paintings of edgeless oceans, punctuated with figures adrift are both dynamic and full of movement while maintaining a restful quality, replete with mystery. She suspends the ocean's perpetual movement in dazzling resin surfaces, capturing and reflecting light, illuminating depth. Inside these “Other Oceans,” relationships begin to appear between bathers, subtly juxtaposing anonymity and familiarity, blurring the line between memory and dream. Her works invite the viewer to take a closer look; neutral palettes become a world of nuanced color and textural mark making — a balance that feels grounded and quietly avant-garde.