Sarah Gamble
Philadelphia, PA
Sarah Gamble, a Philadelphia artist originally from Charlotte, NC, received her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania and was a Pew Fellow in 2009. Her work has shown at (e)merge…
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Professional Development Series: May 19, 2012 at Flashpoint
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Next Art Critique: June, 2 2012 at Arlington Arts Center. Guest moderator Philip Barlow
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Annie Albagli
San Francisco, CA
Studio practices are as varied and personal as the clothes one wears or the food one eats. The studio practice of Annie Albagli is no exception. Prioritizing no one way…
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Steven Riddle
Baltimore, MD
Steven Riddle is a Baltimore artist and proud of it. Included on the coveted list of Nudashank’s artists, Steven not only embraces the Baltimore scene but thrives in it.
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Deborah Carroll Anzinger
Washington, D.C.
Before Deborah Carroll Anzinger began pursuing art full time she was crunching data and testing analysis on blocking HIV in the peripheral immune system. She received her PhD in Biology…
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Addison Ripley Fine Art
Washington, D.C.
Walking down Reservoir Road towards Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown has become a familiar little walk for me these past few years. Going to Addison Ripley Fine Art Gallery is akin…
To visit the studio of Kim Anno, is to immerse yourself into a fluid environment. Anno, an internationally exhibited artist and chair of the painting department at the California College of the Arts, works in an interdisciplinary manner, blending painting, video and photography into a seamless body of work. She is also an avid environmental activist, combining science and visual art to investigate issues related to global warming and water risings. And water, being the eerily poignant signifier that it is, becomes the element that binds her work together. Her videos often feature specific objects immersed underwater, while spools of unfurling pigments wind through the image like expanding mushroom clouds. There is a meditative quality to the deceptively complex dance of elements that she directs. Often an accompanying soundtrack, both beautiful and unsettling, heightens this sense.While, Anno’s videos vacillate somewhere between painting and photography, her paintings are no exception.
Fluidly blurring the boundaries between these seemingly disparate mediums, Anno’s latest body of oil on aluminum paintings feels like something between abstract expressionism and a video still. Her paintings blend photographic images of popular waterside tourist sites with bold and seeping marks of transparent and opaque color. In this way she both references the representational image while breaking it down into a more elemental level. What she captures in these paintings is a distinct moment. The photographic images underneath, initially referencing specific locations Anno had visited or wanted to visit, are slowly dissolved by ominously swirling pigments.
The effect is that of a poison slowly and inevitably diffusing and thus destroying the underlying photograph even as it creates a new and disturbingly beautiful image.
“I paint on top of the photographic image of these places in an attempt to love them to death, to adorn them, and ultimately damage them. I…
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