Anna Wingfield (born in 1990) works in monotypes, exploring color and texture recorded from natural surroundings. She intentionally revisits specific places engaging with the environment. She records field notes by creating color palettes, pulling hues from the sky, wildlife, and surrounding landscape. She returns to these spaces over and over again, repeatedly capturing the environment’s transitions until they start to become abstract. In her studio, she uses her color palettes to inform the monotype process. The act of inkwiping translates tones into movements creating a series of moments that are all connected.
Wingfield mixes printmaking techniques with different methods of applying ink onto the plate. Layers of ink are wiped and dragged across the copper plates, creating fluid movements of uninterrupted swaths of ink. It is a reverie between building up and scraping away ink. This process of transforming color into gesture is highlighted by the use of circle copper plates, the shape acting as a frame that guides the viewer's focus.
Anna Wingfield graduated from Goucher College and studied fine art at Goldsmiths University of London and The Art Students League in New York. She has exhibited in various group shows, at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and The Other Art Fair. Wingfield recently presented two solo shows, Slow Fade, at Umico Gallery in Los Angeles and Colorscapes, at Crescent Tree Gallery in Claremont.
Check out the episode I was featured in on Her Vision Podcast
Read an article by People of Print on my inspirations and artistic process.
EXHIBITIONS:
2023
“Colorscapes” solo exhibition at Crescent Tree Gallery, Claremont, CA
“Slow Fade” solo exhibition at Gallery UMICO, Los Angeles, CA
2022
“Here’s the Thing” group show at Gallery UMICO , Los Angeles, CA
The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair London, UK
The Canvas Project Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
The Other Art Fair at The ROW, Los Angeles, CA
The Other Art Fair Virtual Editions, Los Angeles, CA
2019
“Bearing/Behavior” Arvia at XIX Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Installation at Fernweh Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Art Beyond the Glass, Los Globos Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Group Printmaking Show, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC
2014
Group Printmaking Show, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC
2012
Polymonochrome, Thesis exhibition, The Corrin Student Gallery at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD