{"title":"Anna Valdez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"word-break: break-word;\"\u003eAnna Valdez studied anthropology before training as a painter. On an\u003cbr\u003earchaeological dig in Ireland she was asked to keep a sketchbook of the\u003cbr\u003esite, drawing the objects to scale and mapping where each one was found.\u003cbr\u003eThe habit stayed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"word-break: break-word;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe grows the plants, throws and glazes the vessels, and keeps the shells,\u003cbr\u003ebones, and taxidermy that fill her Los Angeles studio. Most paintings begin\u003cbr\u003eas an arrangement she builds in the studio. She paints from life, in her own\u003cbr\u003ewords, “but doesn’t adhere to it.” A vase she made in clay turns up inside a\u003cbr\u003ecanvas. Sometimes a vase that exists only on canvas gets made in clay\u003cbr\u003eafterward, and painted again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work moves between oil on canvas, gouache on panel, ceramic,\u003cbr\u003emonotype, and wallpaper, at sizes from a panel six inches wide to a canvas\u003cbr\u003enearly seven feet across. In 2026, for Spring Migration at Governors Island\u003cbr\u003eArts, her image was wrapped in vinyl around the hull of the Governors\u003cbr\u003eIsland ferry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer work has been shown at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the\u003cbr\u003eContemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, the New Britain Museum of American\u003cbr\u003eArt, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Asheville Art Museum, and the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Museum of Ceramic Art. It is held in the collections of the\u003cbr\u003eColumbus Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Museum of Ceramic Art, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/joymachine.art\/collections\/anna-valdez.oembed","provider":"Joy Machine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}