The Adoration of Spring
In 2021, Hannah Yata went bigger than she ever had — ten feet of canvas, the most challenging painting she'd attempted, begun from little more than a loose study and a conviction about where the light should fall. "The Adoration of Spring" borrows its bones from art history's devotional scenes, then swaps the object of worship: here the congregation of creatures gathers not around a throne, but the season itself, fertility as the thing kneeled to. It's Yata's grandest statement of the central idea that nature isn't just scenery, but is sovereign. A painting the size of a chapel wall, now captured on 1,000mg of 24-karat gold.
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“It’s the beauty, the elegance, the delicate lushness of nature I seek to capture. I wish to do her justice.”
Hannah Yata
Sacred ground.
Struck in gold.
For most of art history, adoration was painted on gold. Byzantine icons, medieval altarpieces, the gilded panels of the early Renaissance — when painters wanted to mark something as holy, they laid it over gold ground, a metal with intense value and spiritual significance. Yata painted “The Adoration of Spring” in oil on ten feet of canvas — her most challenging creation and the centerpiece work of her career — as an altarpiece, a congregation. Which is exactly why it belongs on gold, as a return to the bones the spiritual genre was born on.
The Adoration of Spring, given the gold its lineage demands. Double serialization, individually numbered, an an altarpiece for the shelf.
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About the Artist
Hannah Yata
Hannah Yata paints like the wilderness got a vote. Born in Georgia and homeschooled in the countryside, she fell into colorful oils before she was ten and never left. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of Georgia before moving to New York in 2012, where the collision of city excess and her rural instincts lit the fuse. Her giant canvases are dense, teeming ecosystems rendered at monumental scale — some stretching nine and ten feet — where fish-headed women, orchids, serpents, and storms tangle together in what she describes as layers of symbolism about how we treat the natural world, and how we treat women, and why those are the same question. A fixture of the new contemporary surrealism movement, Yata is that rare thing: a painter whose wildest images are also her arguments.
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