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Audrey Frank AnastasiFlorentine Birch, trees, nature, over classically patterned paper2017
2017
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Even though recognizable as trees, the artist considers the birch works to be process-oriented abstractions. "I am interested in the interplay between the abstract markings and the staccato character of the tree forms. With dense repetitions and anthropomorphic suggestions, the birch tree series presents forests that are akin to those of childhood fairytales, where one can be hopelessly lost. Coexisting with this discomforting circumstance, there remains a suggestion of the endless wonder, continuity, and power of renewal in nature. Life spirit prevails beyond what is scientifically measurable and knowable in a physical sense. And, for me, this confirms faith in the unknowable."
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- Creation Year:2017
- Dimensions:Height: 20.01 in (50.8 cm)Width: 27.01 in (68.6 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Brooklyn, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU133915701221
Audrey Frank Anastasi
Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson at the Trailside Museum & Zoo, Bear Mountain State Park, NY, and the Stations of the Cross in the auditorium of Our Lady of Angels RC Church, Brooklyn. Her work is in Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY, Museum Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, Pfizer Corporation, NY, Avon Corporation, St. Vincent's Hospital Collection, NYC & MoMA Photography Archives.
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