Visual artist Jeffrey Hansen has lived and worked in the art community of Lowertown, St. Paul since 1994. In 1992, while attending the College of Visual Arts, he opened his own workshop and studio in the downtown area of White Bear Lake before moving to St. Paul. He has participated in the St. Paul Art Crawl since 1994, where in the of Fall of 1998 and Spring of 2018, his artwork was winner of the media prize and featured in all printed promotional materials for that year's art event.
Following three decades of experimentation with an array of unique painterly techniques, years of travel in the area of his practice in nature photography, and a re-discovery of circular motifs, has lead a path to where he is today within his artistic career. Now he is concentrating his take on minimalistic techniques of abstract expressionism in non-subjective symbolism and geometric form. Jeff’s renewed magnetism on the idea of circular infinity is creating a body of work that conveys a new vision of artistic interpretation and iconographic value.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I enjoy creating visual structures that include circles for the idea of how the shape of a circle is used as a symbol for infinity. I believe art, in itself, is infinite. I'm using the circle as a infinite motif to create my art in an infinite universe of artistic possibilities.
I attempt to gather my ideas, energy, and emotions while creating my work when choosing the colors and compostiton of each artistic piece and let its outcome take place within the process of making each piece in its own way.
No true path is really set. Each decision whispers a fragment of truth and motivates an interplay between mark-making and memory. Altogether, this shapes the infinite.
Tied collectively with the term and title of 'Non-Zero-Sum' carries with it another, not so familiar term, for infinite possibilities. A Non-Zero-Sum theory, as it were, has balance of both complementary and completely opposed motives that are perceived as never-ending, or infinite. Adding another layer to the approach of infinity in a artistic marriage of endless potential.