Anne Buckwalter

Anne Buckwalter is an American painter. Her work has been exhibited and collected in the United States, Canada, and Italy, and she has participated in residency programs in the US and Canada. She lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

She explores female identity and the coexistence of contradictory elements. Inspired by the folk art traditions of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, her work arranges disparate objects in mysterious rooms and ambiguous spaces. By imagining obscure narratives that embrace paradoxes, her paintings delve into questions about the female body, intimacy, and gender roles.

In her work we will observe clothes in confortable rooms where sometimes there are no characters, bodies that try to be described without having to be shown through these objects. Beds will play an essential role in these pieces, since, for Buckwalter, the bed perfectly symbolises the collision of many conflicting elements.

Her paintings are a combination of invented subjects and elements drawn from her own life. Buckwalter creates an ambiguous narrative by juxtaposing banal everyday objects, such as a soda can, a laptop or a favourite jumper, with more provocative objects. “Sort of like the feeling of being half-told a secret”, the artist says.

Anne Buckwalter received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2016 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2021.