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Fontainbleau, France. After finishing school, Cecily was able to work in art and design related fields. “The next summer I started as an artist in the display art department in the main offices of the JC Penney Company, and stayed there for two years. The next move was to Washington, DC, where I worked as an advertising artist at WTOP Radio and TV, a Post Newsweek station. After two years I went on to WTTG. I did promotional art for television on air for another two years. I wanted to have more time for painting, so I started teaching elementary art in Frederick County Maryland. My parents moved to Florida. I came for a visit, loved it, and stayed.”
In Florida Hangen continued to teach. “I was teaching art at the Norton Museum, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Lighthouse Gallery.” However, she became dissatisfied with teaching as a way to support her art. “For me teaching inhibits my own painting. For the last 20 years I have been in the art gallery business, 16 years as part owner. Currently I am a salesperson in two galleries.”
All the while Hangen has been making art. “My painting started surrealistic. Coming to Florida I painted huge shells. That evolved into my current abstraction of organic forms or half circles and arches designed as a color construction like a piece of architecture. I always shade the forms for a 3 dimensional effect like the Chiaroscuro of Leger and the Renaissance masters. Then I paint the lines on top in reverse shading and often contrasting color. It really is an arrangement of moving stripes. Also I have painted on cubes.”
Cecily Hangen exhibits her work actively. “I exhibit my work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art Artists Gallery in Delray Beach and in Palm Beach at the S.Thompson Palm Beach Fine Art gallery and Duaiv Art gallery.”
Looking back on her career of making art and in FLAG, She is happy with her achievements, and with the future of the organization. “I am pleased with the new faces on the board and I know FLAG is in good hands for many years to come.”
Written by Special Reports Editor,
Roberta Morgan. March 30th, 2012.
Cecily served the Florida Artist Group in these positions:
President 1989, 1990 and 2000, 2001 Area II Chair, from 1997 to the present Parliamentarian 1998-2007
Treasurer 2006 - 2008 and again in 2012
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