Anna Audette
C W O S ARTIST
Other media: Printmaking
Anna Held Audette
24 Everit Street
New Haven,, CT 06511-2208
Phone: 203-777-8889
Email: aha (at) annaheldaudette (dot) com
Artist Statement
My paintings comment on the melancholy beauty found in relics of our recent industrial past. Both the literal and evocative meanings of these subjects strike a responsive chord in me and provide variations on a theme that has been central to my paintings for a long time. The relics remind us that, in our rapidly changing world, the triumphs of technology are just a moment away from obsolescence. Yet these remains of collapsed power have a strength, grace, and sadness that is both eloquent and impenetrable. Transfigured by time and light, which render the ordinary extraordinary, they form a visual requiem for the industrial age.
Selected Works
|  Factory Wall - 2005 - Oil - 50" x 50"  Truck Firewall - 2007 - Oil - 18" x 32"  Caterpillar - 2005 - Oil - 36" x 48"  Blue Truck - 2000 - Oil - 24" x 40"  Suisun Bay XII - 1995 - Oil - 24" x 37"  Bascule Bridge - 1990 - Oil - 60" x 35"  Seymour Specialty Wire - 2000 - Oil - 50" x 26"  Scrap Metal XXIII - 1999 - Oil - 48" x 36" |
Artist Bio
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Science, Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Rijksprentenkabinett, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
National Gallery of Art, Lessing Rosenwald Collection, Washington, DC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, PR
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
RCA Corporation, New York, NY
Owens-Corning, Toledo, OH
National Aeronautics and Space Agency, Washington, DC