Gastkünstler im Internationalen Künstlerhaus

Anne Polashenski has been creating visual narratives using textile patterns and figures to explore what it might physically and psychologically feel like to be obliterated by pattern. She creates dense and complex compositions built from ink stamps, drawings, photographs and gouache paint. Polashenski has been inspired by her travels and by the challenges that confront her as she approaches other cultures. The patterns and structures of other cultures, in their unfamiliarity, become the tools with which she learns familiarity, both with herself and with other people. These experiences help her reflect upon her own culture and clarifies her relationship with it.

Born in Syracuse, New York, Anne Polashenski received her MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College in 2003. Since that time, she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, with her first major solo exhibition at Galería Fruela in Madrid, Spain in 2008. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. In previous years, she was in residence at St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta, Malta, the Art Factory in Bialystok, Poland, at Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a teaching artist with Studio in a School and The Joan Mitchell Foundation working in the New York City public school system. Anne Polashenski currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.