ANNA WEHRWEIN makes works that reimagine the domestic space as a site of creative action and communal agency.  Within this space, care can take on many forms and intimacy comes from both touch and time. In a recent series on Color-Aid paper, she uses drawing as both mode and metaphor. There is an urgency to the drawings— a need to mark, to saturate, to understand an image or a feeling. Using the body as a viewfinder, they peer into relationships in which the act of looking itself is both active and reciprocal. The drawings look deeply while retaining flatness, a push and pull that destabilizes what is full and what is empty, what is filled in and what is left open. Together, these drawings are about intimacies— of view, of people, of mark-making. They are about closeness and touch and finding a shared place for drawing and watching and listening.

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 Paintings, Friend of the Artist, West Branch Literary Journal and ArtMaze Magazine. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Collar Works, Troy, NY; Troost Gardens, Kansas City, MO and online at Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY. She has been an artist in residence at Virginia Center for Creative Arts; Vermont Studio Center; Anderson Ranch Art Center; and MacDowell. In 2019, she was awarded the Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship from MacDowell.