AUDREY FRANK ANASTASI

Website: www.AudreyAnastasi.com

Email address: audfa@aol.com

STATEMENT

At the heart of my studio practice is my quest to reach what is emotionally and aesthetically essential, by furiously producing at the intersection of disciplined control and randomized instinct, to work with abandon, and to counteract preconceptions and inhibitions.  As a feminist artist, my first commitment is to painting other women, the human face, and figure. Whether working with figurative descriptions or with the abstract use of materials, I approach all my subjects directly and with abandon.  Additionally, in my quest to discover and reveal what is most essential, the observational drawing aspect of these images is created with my non-dominant left hand.

BIOGRAPHY

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 2019/20 at Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn w/ an accompanying 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.

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.

Publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma.