Anna Wingfield works in monotypes, exploring the sense of place and the passage of time through color and texture from her natural surroundings. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest with biologist parents, she spent her childhood outdoors in the field observing the natural world. Today, she engages with her surrounding environment by documenting field notes, which she calls color palettes. Pulling inspiration from the sky, wildlife, shadows, and courses of a river, she intentionally returns to these environments, capturing the changing landscape until it starts to become abstract. The palettes form a topography of experience, emotional connection, and time. These topographies are taken back to the studio and captured in the painterly gestures of Wingfield’s abstract monotypes.
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 color. It is a reverie between building up and scraping away. Wingfield reuses the same copper plates even as they degrade and oxidize, embracing their unpredictability and imperfections. The process of transforming the color into gesture is highlighted by the use of round copper plates, the shape acting as a window to guide 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