Anna Tanner

Anna is an American artists who lives and works in Glasgow

Statement
My work investigates the notion of consciousness as an enclosure for all lived experience, where hallucinatory realities are the product of a constant unfolding holographic process.

Biologist David Bohm suggested that memory could be considered to be a holographic process. Just as a single a photographic plate can contain the whole three-dimensional image needed to create a hologram, so too the human brain can make a three dimensional record of lived experience.

I am interested in visualizing schisms between real time experience and projected memory/histories and the ways they conjoin.  Recent works have focused on conflating imagery of mythological wild men with settings and objects taken from mundane contemporary urban, domestic and cultivated environments. Other works have suggested that the physicality of a space is as subjective as the physicality of a memory, asking the viewer to eradicate certain hierarchies.


Education
2007- 2009
MFA, Glasgow school of Art
1997-2001  
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.  B.F.A, Painting
2001- 2002
Goethe Institute, Murnau, Germany. German language and culture studies

Exhibition
2009
Zoo Art Fair, Collective Gallery, London
“New Work Scotland”, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
“SET IT UP AND GO”, APS Artnews Projects, Berlin
“MFA Degree Show”, Tramway, Glasgow
“Fugue County”, Sweet Geranium, Glasgow
“Last Tango in Partick, Low Salt/Now Museum, Glasgow
“Les Animauxs”, CCA , MFA Screening, Glasgow
2008
“ The Secret Agent/ UVP(Worldwide)”, Lowsalt Gi 2008, Glasgow
“Read Your Tea Leaves Carefully”, CCA, MFA screening, Glasgow
2007
“Second life”, Portman Gallery, London
2006  
“CRG Presents: Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery”, CRG Gallery, NY
RISD Biennial, Exit Art, NY
2005    
“Selected Drawings”, Klaus Von Nichtsagend Gallery, NY
2004    
V1 gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Multiples Show” Klaus Von Nichtsagend Gallery, NY
2003
Baltic Poster Exhibition, Tartu, Estonia 

“Toy Theater Festival” Great and Small Works, NY
2001
“Landscapes” Gallery on the Warf, Geversdorf, Germany
2000    
Solo Exhibition, Sol Koffer Gallery, Providence, RI

Awards
2009
Studio Voltaire Residency, London
2007
William and Mary Armour, Glasgow School of Art
2000  
Ripley Albright Award, painting.  RISD, Providence, RI
1997  
Fellowship with the Arkansas Art Center Museum School  and the Arkansas League of Artist.  Little Rock, AR
“Best of Show” Arkansas Young Artist Association. Little Rock, AR

Performaces
2009
“Jamie Radcliff”, Low Salt/ Studio Warehouse, Glasgow
2005
“Coordinates 0.0” Herding people on corresponding alternate dimentions. Klaus Von  Nichtsagend, NY.
2002  
“Rabbit from fish tank” Stop motion, collaboration with Urara Tschiya . London, UK.
2001  
“Flatlined Checklist” 16mm film, on business robots. Providence, RI.
2000  
“Animal Hybrids in Furniture Forrest” in collaberation with RISD Museum. Providence, RI.