Audrey Frank Anastasi

A curator, gallery owner/director, educator and arts advocate, Audrey Anastasi is, above all, a prolific and tirelessly dedicated visual artist.

Her "ref-u-gee" series of forced-migration-themed artworks was shown 2022-23 in a solo exhibition at Brooklyn College Library Gallery in collaboration with the VMoA, Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY.. An accompanying monograph with 184 images is scheduled for publication summer in 2023.

Following two back to back solo exhibitions from December 2017 through July 2018, Ms. Anastasi became immersed in a collage series which is scheduled to be exhibited at Welancora Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, in the spring season, 2019.

Most of Ms. Anastasi's work focuses on the human subject, with boldly painted faces and figures. In these works, she prefers working rapidly from direct observation. Her figurative paintings since 1990, in her quest to discover and reveal what is most essential, are painted with her non-dominant left hand.

In 2016, a book of her "Stations of the Cross" was published by SPQR press, ISBN: 978-0-9975306-5-0.

She has an extensive history of solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in private and public collections, including the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, ...

Biography After graduating Magna cum Laude from the University of Miami, Audrey Anastasi came to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute, where she received her Masters degree in Fine Arts. From 1985 to 1994, she taught figure drawing, portfolio development and anatomy for artists at Parsons School of Design. She is the former President of Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). She is a member of National Association of Women Artists (NAWA). resume link:http://nyartistscircle.org/artists/anastasi/links/anastasiresume.pdf,

Public Collections and Archives:
Museum Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.
Pfizer
Avon Corporation
National Museum of Women in the Arts Library, Washington, DC.
St. Vincent's Hospital Collection, NYC.
Museum of Modern Art, Photography Archives, for drawings in Sirius Studies by Thomas Roma, NYC.
The Brooklyn Museum Library, Brooklyn, NY.
The White House Curator's Archives, Washington, DC.
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC., Cindy Nemser, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog of paintings,
ISBN 0-9650442-0-3.


Solo Exhibitions
2022-23 ref-u-gee, Brooklyn College Library Gallery in collaboration with Valentine Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2019 EnSamblage, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Waiting in the Sky, David Bowie–inspired artwork, Curator Ivy Jones, NU Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
Public installation: Portrait of Jo Davidson, Trailside Museum and Zoo, Bear Mountain State Park, NY
2017 Forest Fugues, Curator Ivy Jones, NU Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
The Stations of the Cross, St. John Baptist Church and Friary, NYC
2016 Seeing Beyond (two-person exhibition with Tom Bennett), Welancora Gallery, NY
2015 Unveiling of Otto Neals portrait acquisition, Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Stations of the Cross, The Church of...