Ann Aspinwall

Crepe de Chine III, contemporary green linear patterned abstract screenprint

2020

Ann Aspinwall creates prints that reference a combination of historic and modern styles. Her most recent works invoke landscape, seascape and mapmaking, as well as the color block. Sometimes also there is a reference to Mark Rothko. The artist received her MA in art history from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1998, and studied printmaking at studios in Scotland and Italy. She worked as a master printer at Pace Editions, New York and as a print specialist at the New York Public Library. In 2012, Aspinwall and her husband, Knut Willich, founded Aspinwall Editions, a fine art print publisher and print studio with facilities in the New York Hudson Vallery and Rheine, Germany. Aspinwall’s work is in the permanent collections of the British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art, Davison Art Collection, Wesleyan University, U.S., the Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Germany, Department of State Art Bank Program, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, China Printmaking Museum, Cleveland Clinic, Cummins, Inc. Fidelity Investments, Memorial Sloan Kettering, to name a few.