Caleb Hahne’s portraits, which feature a delicate interplay of soft light and shadow, focus on the haziness of memory and boyhood itself. Hahne often obscures his subjects’ faces and focuses instead on close-cropped hands or wide-angle views of the backs of heads. The artist uses acrylic, pastel, graphite, and colored pencil to depict the particularities of movement and gesture; his often anonymous subjects ride on horseback or enjoy moments of quiet intimacy. Hahne has exhibited in Denver, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berlin, among other cities. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the New Museum in New York.
Mexican-American, b. 1993