Alanna creates abstract work about trauma and connection. She is interested in how trauma is felt in our bodies, how it interrupts our lives, and how it ripples down through communities and generations. She explores the dynamics of human relationships and how power, compromise, and connection shape our experience. She uses abstract ribbon forms that are interrupted, pushed, pulled, or otherwise altered by external objects to explore these ideas. Moments of tension occur between the ribbons and these objects, or the ribbons and themselves. Ribbons flow together: soaring, splitting, and dancing back and forth in a movement of give and take. She creates her drawings with layers of crosshatched colored pencil and wax pastel. It's a meditative process that results in a soft, textured work, and invites the viewer to look slowly, and stay present. Alanna Hernandez (b. 1988) grew up on Cape Cod, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010, where she earned a B.A. in Middle East Studies. During this time she gained some formal art training, as well as education in history, religion, and language. Her work combines her formal education in the arts and humanities, exploration of spirituality, and self-taught art skills. She has lived in Midcoast Maine since 2018. She has shown work in London, New York, and Miami; and recently finished a residency at Monson Arts in Maine.

Alanna creates abstract work about trauma and connection. She is interested in how trauma is felt in our bodies, how it interrupts our lives, and how it ripples down through communities and generations. She explores the dynamics of human relationships and how power, compromise, and connection shape our experience. She uses abstract ribbon forms that are interrupted, pushed, pulled, or otherwise altered by external objects to explore these ideas. Moments of tension occur between the ribbons and these objects, or the ribbons and themselves. Ribbons flow together: soaring, splitting, and dancing back and forth in a movement of give and take. She creates her drawings with layers of crosshatched colored pencil and wax pastel. It's a meditative process that results in a soft, textured work, and invites the viewer to look slowly, and stay present. Alanna Hernandez (b. 1988) grew up on Cape Cod, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010, where she earned a B.A. in Middle East Studies. During this time she gained some formal art training, as well as education in history, religion, and language. Her work combines her formal education in the arts and humanities, exploration of spirituality, and self-taught art skills. She has lived in Midcoast Maine since 2018. She has shown work in London, New York, and Miami; and recently finished a residency at Monson Arts in Maine.