HANNAH GAMBINO
Goblin Milk, the moniker of Hannah Gambino, creates abstract expressionist paintings and pottery, charming altered wheel-thrown forms, whimsical ceramic sculptures, and original character block prints and patches carved and printed or sewn onto altered clothing.
With an emphasis on the word "critter," I enjoy creating little fellers to be around. Many of them are not a specific animal but can fully lean towards one as perceived by an individual; they are ambiguous, like emotions we keep veiled, though that impacts little. A sweet (usually playful) critter is present regardless, and I relate.
My work often shows at face value but translates grief into something that brings physicality to the joy and simplicity that animals, colors, and lines bring. I express conversation between my inner child to the adult navigating, leading to intersection of representation and whimsy.
While moving through a number of mediums, most seriously focused on my paintings and ceramics, I'm constantly finding inspiration through fluid lines and vivid color, characters and cartoons, and the natural world and animals.
I've explored grief through abstraction of the life cycle, most interested in the relationship between intuitive mark making, thematic color, and repressed emotion. This translates through to every medium I work with.
IG: @artbygoblinmilk
