March 4 - 25, 2023

Anne Sargent Walker’s paintings are about nature and crisis, and the fraught relationship between humans and our planet. She says:

My work is about the beauty, complexity, and fragility of nature and our complicated relationship with it. The surfaces of my paintings, with birds, flora or other creatures, often peels back, dissolves or drips to reveal layers underneath, suggesting the planet’s warming, and loss of habitats, species, the earth itself and of course us. I want my paintings to be beautiful- to inspire the kind of love for nature that I feel.  And yet, I want them to have some elements that are ugly, or out of place, or out of synch- something that makes people wonder- what is going on? In the hand paintings, I don’t want to project an idealized relationship with nature- as that it not the case, even if we revere it. We feed the birds, and love animals while collectively contributing to the climate’s warming and the loss of habitats to the point that we are all at an existential edge.

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