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Audrey AnastasiElsewhere, figure, collage, disrupted realism birds nature2020
2020
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Paper paint magazine paper, charcoal, collage
These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, various language newspapers, print publications, and previous drawings.
As a natural progression of Ms.Anastasi's older work, this new iteration of charcoal and pastel portraits of women from life employ overlaid pieces of torn newspaper, magazines, and previous drawings to create complex and emotionally intense figures. Within some of these portraits there are ripped road maps, providing equal presence to the figures each with their own level of dimensionality. The maps serve to pose questions, such as, “Where am I?, Where does this road lead”? Offering answers, “I am central to the narrative. I constructed the environment around me”.
Audrey Anastasi is a feminist artist. Her practice is rooted in painting other women, the human face, and figure through direct observation. Through this technique, Anastasi examines perception and the construction of self-image.
Audrey was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, and taught figure drawing, portfolio development, and anatomy for artists at Parsons School of Design for approximately 10 years. Audrey has been featured in Smart Money Magazine, the Lenny Lopate Show (aka: New York and Company) on National Public Radio, the New York Times, New York Daily News, amNY, Pratt Folio, Jewish Week, the arts & entertainment supplements of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Brooklyn Fine Arts magazine, OntheIssuesMagazine and the New York Observer. Audrey lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Giancarlo T. Roma writes:
As a medium, collages are defined by the idea of fragmentation -- disparate elements pasted together to form a new whole. In her latest series, Collage, Audrey Anastasi uses this idea to convey the complexity of our inner lives -- that we are not one thing, even to ourselves.
Compositionally, each piece contains two fundamental elements -- a woman, drawn in charcoal, usually in the center of the frame, and bits of media pasted in front of, behind, and around each subject. The women assume a variety of poses -- some are vulnerable, shoulders open, glaring at the viewer; others are guarded, arms crossed, contorting their body to the side; many are lost in thought, staring off into some unknown distance, seemingly unaware of our gaze.
No matter their disposition, though, the women of Collage all appear deep in introspection, and we see them as if we are walking in on them in private moments. They are not just in their own heads, but in the closets, attics, and hiding places of their minds, alternatively focused and wistful in their contemplation.
The other media -- bits of writing, scraps from magazines, fragments of other paintings -- give us clues as to what might be giving them pause, or at least the shape it is taking. Indeed, the most recurring image of the series is that of a map, usually serving as the background to the subjects -- taken together, the images that populate their surroundings function as a kind of map of their inner life.
In “Red Birch,” birch trees -- a previous series of Anastasi’s and another theme that repeats in this one -- create a thicket in front of a woman’s pensive face, as other bits of filigree flicker on the other side, creating a sort of visual static. Toned in sepia like an old, old photograph, the work has the feeling of revisiting an old memory that’s been obfuscated by the passing of time.
Eyelids droopy with reverie, the woman at the center of “Cowgirl” leans her head down towards a hillside pine forest traversed by two horses, as if she’s listening to the sounds of her own projection, perhaps of where she’d rather be. We get the sense we are glimpsing into her own imagination -- a mind-made diorama.
Bright stars and neon galaxies swirl around a woman in “Celestial Night” seeping into parts of her arm, head, and chest. But her body also displays a much more local map -- the New York City subway system, with its own colored lines traversing her body like veins. Space, quite literally, is collapsed in her being. She is here and everywhere at the same time. Aren’t we all.
- Creator:Audrey Anastasi (American)
- Creation Year:2020
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Brooklyn, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1339114471372
Audrey Anastasi
Audrey Frank Anastasi has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2022 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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Fantastic & Visionary Art, touring exhibit: Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
National Academy of Design 178th Annual Exhibition, NY, NY
2002 Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art of the 20th Century, Ann Nathan Gallery, Park Ave. Armory, NY, NY
Outsider Art Fair, The Puck Building @ Houston & Lafayette Sts., NYC
Self and Other Portraits, Wisconsin Artists, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Return of the Men, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2001 Beyond the 50's, May 4 - July 1, Exhibit A, A Gallery of Art & Design, Birmingham, Michigan
Outsider Art Fair, January 26-28, The Puck Building @ Houston & Lafayette Sts., NYC
"FANTASTIC ART", April/May, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange NSW, Australia.
David Becker: Etchings and Engravings, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, solo exhibition of prints, February.
2000 Four person exhibition, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, Oct. 31 - Nov. 27, 2000.
1999 National Academy 174th Annual Exhibition, NY
University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Treasures Revealed: 19th and 20th Century American Works on Paper, National Academy, NY
1995 Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bhopal, India
Contemporary Prints, Selections from John Szoke Gallery, NYC, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Collection Update, 1994, National Academy of Design Museum, NY
1994 David Becker and Robert Sholties, Peconic Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY
In Black and White: Works by Four Printmakers, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Aesthetics of Athletics: Sports, Games, and Exercise, Charles A. Wustum Musem, Racine, WI
GMI IX Award Winners, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg
1993 Take Home a Nude benefit auction, NY Academy of Art Graduate School Of Figurative Art, NY
1993 American Prints: Last Half 20th Century, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washingtion, DC
Outstanding American Prints, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha,WI
National Academy of Design 168th Annual Exhibition, NY
David Becker: Etchings, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Portraits, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1992 The Print Fair, 7th Regiment Armory, NY
1991 166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NY
Alma College Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Modes of Expression, Potsdam College, SUNY, Potsdam, NY
1990 With Nothing On, Prints and Drawings of the Nude, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Prints by Printmakers, Staller Art Center, SUNY-Stonybrook, NY
Publications/Reviews
2007 November 60 Years of North American Prints: 1947-2007, Boston U. Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 July 11 Isthmus, Madison, “Welcome to My Nightmare,” by Robert Cozzolino.
2001 March 14 The Wall Street Journal, "Time Off: A Week of Diversions."
Review of Progressive Printmakers (LVM) exhibition.
2001 February Isthmus, Madison, "America's Printland," by Jennifer Smith.
2001 February Capital Times, "The Crowned Prints," by Kevin Lynch.
1999 July Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists & the Print Renaissance.
1995 – 1999 Who’s Who in America.
1993 Summer The Journal of the Print World, review.
March 14 The New York Times, review.
March 12 The Daily Oklahoman, review.
1990 Dec. 13 The Capital Times, review.
April 28 The Washingtion Post, review.
March 25 The New York Times, review.
Summer The Journal of the Print World, review.
Selected Collections
- additional collections available on requestArkansas Arts Center Foundation, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Elvehjem Museum of Art, U of Wisconson-Madison
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum, Miami, FL
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Columbia
National Academy, NY, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, NY
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
United States Information Agency, Prague, Czech.
Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Canada
Albion College, Albion, MI
Alma College, Alma, MI
Art Center, South Bend, IN
AT&T Corporate HQ, Plainfield, NJ
Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA
Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Columbia Green Community College, Hudson, NY
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Georgia State University – Atlanta
Hope College, Holland, MI
Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Marui Imai Inc., Sapporo, Japan
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Minot Art Association, Minot, ND
North Carolina Print/Drawing Society, Charlotte, NC
North Texas State University – Denton
Ohio University – Athens
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma State University, OK
Quad Graphics, Milwaukee, WI
Silvermine Guild of Arts, New Canaan, CT
Springfield College, Springfield, MA
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
State University of New York – Fredonia
State University of New York – Potsdam
Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Dallas, TX
University of Louisville, Louisville, KN
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
University of North Dakota – Grand Forks
University of South Dakota – Vermillion
University of Tennesse – Knoxville
West Chester State College, West Chester, PA
Western Kentucky University – Bowling Green
Private Collections
Carla Leighton, New York, NY
Marc Hauser, Chicago, IL
Michael John Hofer, Chicago, IL
Drs. Mark & Helene Connolly, River Forest, IL
Jamie Kalikow, New York, NY
Dianne & Jim Blanco, Chicago, IL
Denise Roberge, Palm Desert, CA
Tish & Philip Messinger, Creskill, NJ
Brian Wesphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL
Ralph Privoznik, Lafayette, IN
Candice Groot, Evanston, IL
Shomaker/Ruud Collection, Chicago, IL
Braden Berkey and Robert Bartlett, Chicago, IL
Bill and Karyn Silverstein, Highland Park, IL
Steve Weitz, Lovettsville, VA
Mary Allice Wimmer, Madison, WI
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