Details:

In this chalk pastel and charcoal work on paper, two cropped figures—parts of both the subject and viewer—frame the objects of their attention: art materials. Similarly to much of her oeuvre, the artist investigates an intimate relationship between herself and her physical surroundings through this picture.
Unframed
Signed

① Artwork:

Summer Drawing III

In this chalk pastel and charcoal work on paper, two cropped figures—parts of both the subject and viewer—frame the objects of their attention: art materials. Similarly to much of her oeuvre, the artist investigates an intimate relationship between herself and her physical surroundings through this picture.

Anna Wehrwein’s drawings explore the act of watching with an artistic gaze that is intimate rather than voyeuristic. With her high-chroma colors, the artworks entice as readily as they evade. Ultimately, these drawings represent the relationships and communities they depict: artists and friends using domestic spaces as creative sites.

Specs:

18.25 inches
24 inches

③ Artist:

Anna Wehrwein

Anna Wehrwein’s drawings explore the act of watching with an artistic gaze that is intimate rather than voyeuristic. With her high-chroma colors, the artworks entice as readily as they evade. Ultimately, these drawings represent the relationships and communities they depict: artists and friends using domestic spaces as creative sites.

Anna Wehrwein was born in 1990 and is 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.

Wehrwein has exhibited her work at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; Thierry Goldberg in New York City, NY; Collar Works in Troy, NY; Troost Gardens in Kansas City, MO; and elsewhere.

Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, West Branch Literary Journal, and ArtMaze Magazine.

She has attended residencies at VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and MacDowell, at which she was awarded the 2019 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship.

Anna Wehrwein:
Summer Drawing III, 2023
Chalk pastel, charcoal on Color-aid paper
24.0 × 18.3 inches /