Anna Wehrwein "Wader II"
Oil and sand on canvas, 24 x 20 in, 2019, $750
Artist Statement
I make paintings and drawings that reimagine the domestic space and painting tableau as a site of creative action and communal agency. They are dense spaces of color and bodies that intertwine painting history with feminist utopias. Contained within the picture plane, the gaze in this world is intimate instead of performative, absorptive instead of scopophilic: a tool for self-reflexivity and self-imaging. At first glance there is a romance to the scene of women bathing in nature—but don’t be fooled. The water smells of sulfur, the rocks are sharp, and she is not the classical bather figure of art history who exists to be watched and spied on. She is a contemporary woman, a fellow artist, with a wide back and strong thighs. She is absorbed— physically, emotionally, materially— in her environment and fellow swimmers. We look over her shoulder but it is she who is the watcher.
Artist Bio
Anna Wehrwein is an artist originally from the Boston area. She received her BS in Art and BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, and West Branch Literary Journal. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at AUTOMAT Collective (Philadelphia, PA), The Warbling Collective (London, UK), Tugboat Gallery (Lincoln, NE) and the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC). She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and MacDowell, for which she was awarded the 2019 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship. She currently lives in Columbia, MO where she is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
Oil and sand on canvas, 24 x 20 in, 2019, $750
Artist Statement
I make paintings and drawings that reimagine the domestic space and painting tableau as a site of creative action and communal agency. They are dense spaces of color and bodies that intertwine painting history with feminist utopias. Contained within the picture plane, the gaze in this world is intimate instead of performative, absorptive instead of scopophilic: a tool for self-reflexivity and self-imaging. At first glance there is a romance to the scene of women bathing in nature—but don’t be fooled. The water smells of sulfur, the rocks are sharp, and she is not the classical bather figure of art history who exists to be watched and spied on. She is a contemporary woman, a fellow artist, with a wide back and strong thighs. She is absorbed— physically, emotionally, materially— in her environment and fellow swimmers. We look over her shoulder but it is she who is the watcher.
Artist Bio
Anna Wehrwein is an artist originally from the Boston area. She received her BS in Art and BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, and West Branch Literary Journal. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at AUTOMAT Collective (Philadelphia, PA), The Warbling Collective (London, UK), Tugboat Gallery (Lincoln, NE) and the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC). She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and MacDowell, for which she was awarded the 2019 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship. She currently lives in Columbia, MO where she is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
Oil and sand on canvas, 24 x 20 in, 2019, $750
Artist Statement
I make paintings and drawings that reimagine the domestic space and painting tableau as a site of creative action and communal agency. They are dense spaces of color and bodies that intertwine painting history with feminist utopias. Contained within the picture plane, the gaze in this world is intimate instead of performative, absorptive instead of scopophilic: a tool for self-reflexivity and self-imaging. At first glance there is a romance to the scene of women bathing in nature—but don’t be fooled. The water smells of sulfur, the rocks are sharp, and she is not the classical bather figure of art history who exists to be watched and spied on. She is a contemporary woman, a fellow artist, with a wide back and strong thighs. She is absorbed— physically, emotionally, materially— in her environment and fellow swimmers. We look over her shoulder but it is she who is the watcher.
Artist Bio
Anna Wehrwein is an artist originally from the Boston area. She received her BS in Art and BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, and West Branch Literary Journal. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at AUTOMAT Collective (Philadelphia, PA), The Warbling Collective (London, UK), Tugboat Gallery (Lincoln, NE) and the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC). She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and MacDowell, for which she was awarded the 2019 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship. She currently lives in Columbia, MO where she is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri.
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