ABOUT
THE ARTIST
 Dan
Hanley has steadily
applied his creative
abilities over many years
as a designer and builder
of homes and residential
communities. In
recent years, he turned
his full attention to his
life-long interest in
painting; an interest he
has kept alive and active
for some 40-years since
he graduated college with
a degree in art &
business
administration.
Before entering the
design business, he
taught studio arts,
humanities and theater
craft. His open
stage theater design work
has been the subject of
study in both the US and
in England. His
paintings and home
designs have received
several professional
awards.
Born in Clarksville,
Tennessee, Hanley lived
what he calls a "Tom
Sawyer" boyhood in
his parent's home near
the beautiful Cumberland
River. He often
draws from this
background for his
subjects: "... a
neighborhood of ordinary
folks, unaware that they
were living extraordinary
lives, in extraordinary
times __ unwittingly
heroic in their struggles
to provide for families
and build a community;
making themselves
matter".
Hanley's work is
represented in many
private and corporate
collections. His
originals have brought
prices in excess of
$20,000. While he
is presently working to
expand his body of
paintings, he is
publishing some of his
early works in high
quality Giclée
prints. He
maintains a studio in his
hometown of
Clarksville. He and
his wife, Jodie, have a
married daughter, Kerri
Lusso, a registered nurse
in Greenwood,
Mississippi. Hanley
serves on Clarksville's
Public Arts Commission
and works regularly in
support of the
Clarksville - Montgomery
County Customs House
& Museum.
Following a devastating
tornado that struck
Clarksville in 1999, he
served on the Mayor's
Recovery Task Force,
chairing the Design
Review Board and the
Design Standards
Development Committee.
"I've given up
trying to define art ...
it eludes definition. I
just hope that some of my
work speaks to the truth
of things; the things I
paint __ the time and
place in which these
things are set. And then
it might be that I simply
like to create pictures.
I feel uneasy when I'm
not doing that."
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