ANNA WEHRWEIN •   COLUMBIA, MO

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 PaintingsFriend of the Artist, and West Branch Literary Journal. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at Tugboat Gallery (Lincoln, NE), AUTOMAT Collective (Philadelphia, PA), The Warbling Collective (London, UK) 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 a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri.

“I make paintings and drawings that reimagine the domestic space as a site of creative action and communal agency. Within the established settings of home and garden, the women in the paintings—all of them friends and fellow artists—engage in manual and immersive tasks. They cut each other’s hair, give each other tattoos, and repot houseplants. These are scenes that, while based on real events, appear fictive, even utopian.”

 


ASSOCIATED EXHIBITIONS

Anna Wehrwein - With Her Back Turned
SMALL FORMAT GALLERY
September 4 - October 30, 2020