Ania Hobson On Her New Solo Show, "Deep-Rooted"

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Ania Hobson On Her New Solo Show, "Deep-Rooted"

As her new solo show has just opened, Deep-Rooted, on view at Setareh in Berlin, we asked London-based Ania Hobson about the works in the new show and shift's in perspective she has had over the last September 16, 2023
An Unraveling is at the Heart of Ania Hobson's "Hotel"

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An Unraveling is at the Heart of Ania Hobson's "Hotel"

When you make cinematic paintings, like Ania Hobson does, there is a bit of a mystery as to what each character might be doing off the canvas. Hobson has always given a type of expressive characteris May 31, 2023
Ania Hobson's Defiant Day-To-Day Moments Paired with Barbara Kruger in NYC

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Ania Hobson's Defiant Day-To-Day Moments Paired with Barbara Kruger in NYC

Ania Hobson’s portraits of women, captured in moments of day-to-day life, stand perhaps in contrast to Barbara Kruger’s resounding knell of mortality. Yet this dialogue, between Hobson’s new bo January 26, 2023
Ania Hobson Channels a Determined Dream in "The Social"

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Ania Hobson Channels a Determined Dream in "The Social"

There is an escapism to Ania Hobson's work, the sort of fantasy meets reality that you can recognize and actualize but can't quite reach. There are friends and the moments in the night where the plan December 14, 2022
Playing With Fire: Ania Hobson Debuts in Los Angeles

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Playing With Fire: Ania Hobson Debuts in Los Angeles

"In many paintings, I’m asking the observers to finish the story themselves, and everyone will have a different viewpoint and interpretation," Ania Hobson told us a few years ago in her print featu April 25, 2022
2021: The Best of Radio Juxtapoz

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2021: The Best of Radio Juxtapoz

It was a year that was supposed to get us all back to a sense of normalcy, and yet it was a year that seemed to drag us further into a state of uncertainty and, to be honest, exhausted confusion. We December 31, 2021
I See You: Ania Hobson's Observational Excellence @ SETAREH X, Düsseldorf

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I See You: Ania Hobson's Observational Excellence @ SETAREH X, Düsseldorf

"A character that is portrayed looking into an ambiguous background or distance undoubtedly has a story to tell," Ania Hobson told Juxtapoz in a Spring 2021 feature, "and I like to invite the viewer September 08, 2021
Ania Hobson: Cool, Calm Composer

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Ania Hobson: Cool, Calm Composer

Picture a dog lolling around on his back, legs akimbo, or a cat awakening from its nap, stretching and ready to stalk. A tree in the winter, shedding leaves but not its dignity. Ania Hobson grew up i April 19, 2021
Preview: Spring 2021 with Yusuke Hanai, Amoako Boafo, Ania Hobson, Hernan Bas, Ryan Travis Christian and more

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Preview: Spring 2021 with Yusuke Hanai, Amoako Boafo, Ania Hobson, Hernan Bas, Ryan Travis Christian and more

"Shots of the scotch from out of square shot glasses // And he won't stop 'til he got the masses // And show 'em what they know not through flows of hot molasses.." —MF Doom, "All Caps," Madvi February 24, 2021
Radio Juxtapoz, ep 065: Ania Hobson on Real Life Escapism

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Radio Juxtapoz, ep 065: Ania Hobson on Real Life Escapism

There is so much going on in the painting of Suffolk, UK-based painter, Ania Hobson. At first glance they are portraits, people posing, leaning, conversing, in bars, bedrooms and in cars. But there a February 23, 2021
Ania Hobson: A Deeper Interrogation

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Ania Hobson: A Deeper Interrogation

I have been painting for about seven years, changing studio spaces over time. My current studio is on an old American Air Base in Suffolk County in England, where the old runway tracks are now left w December 23, 2020
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