Meet Anne Schaefer
Residence July 12, 2014 — July 27, 2014
In The Thick Of It
SHIFTSPACE Gallery
During her two-week residency at Harvester Arts, Anne Schaefer created a large scale installation at WSU’s SHIFTSPACE Gallery. Experiential in scale and optically charged through Anne’s careful combination of colors, the work cultivated a perceptually immersive experience for the viewer. The work — part plan, part improvisation — continued Schaefer’s use of a visual language culled from the refuse of the studio, the by-products of her producing process. New graphic marks were distilled from ghost-like prints on the walls of her Philadelphia studio, collections of textured tape clusters were flattened and re-imagined as giant stickers, and paint spills mixed to create an atmospheric haze. These elements were reminders of past works that have been grafted to each other, creating new possibilities for growth and expansion.
