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 “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.” E.B. White Born in New Jersey in 1955, Hackenberg currently lives and works near Port Townsend WA. She received her BFA degree in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, migrating west to San Francisco in 1978 before heading north and settling in the Pacific Northwest in 1992. Hackenberg developed her first connections with the natural world in the pastures, orchards, wooded hills and gently sloping beaches of rural Connecticut. Her years living in San Francisco as an architectural model builder and textile designer honed her environmental values and educated her eye to the juxtaposition of man-made shapes and natural forms. When she moved to the Pacific Northwest her life experiences came full circle; she was again surrounded by the natural landscape. Her past experiences heightened her awareness of the Northwest’s struggle to find balance between increasing population and development and the preservation of wild natural places. Exhibiting extensively in the region, in such diverse venues as Tieton, Seattle, Edison, Port Angeles, and Bellingham, Hackenberg has received many awards for her work. She recently received the 2010 Best 2D Juror’s Award from Esther Luttikhuizen, for her Watershed gouache paintings included in the Anacortes biennial exhibition, NEXT. Divining Line, her 2009 solo exhibit of animal-human portraits at the OK Hotel in Seattle was recommended by Brian Miller in his review of her show in the Seattle Weekly, and Knute Berger noted Hackenberg’s work when reviewing PAFAC’s Envision Cascadia! exhibition for Crosscut on-line magazine. In early 2010, Hackenberg participated her second Centrum for the Arts residency where she created a life size, walk in, Water Shed made from hundreds of single serving plastic water bottles which is currently installed in “Art Outside” an ongoing exhibition in Webster’s Woods at PAFAC in Port Angeles, WA. The national art magazine, Studio Visit, recently featured Hackenbergs’s work in their 10th issue. Hackenberg’s 2011 solo shows include: |
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