Anna Crow

Anna Crow (°1973, Windsor, Canada) is an artist who mainly works with painting. By choosing mainly formal solutions, Crow tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.
Her paintings are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. Through a radically singular approach that is nevertheless inscribed in the contemporary debate, she uses references and ideas that are so integrated into the process of the composition of the work that they may escape those who do not take the time to explore how and why these images haunt you, like a good film, long after you’ve seen them.
Her works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By discluding the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, her works references the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
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