MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
June 19, 2023
This week we recognize Anne Krinsky Anne Krinsky based in London, whose art practice, after twenty-five years turned to investigations of natural and man-made environments in 2017, created from archival and geographical research.
“Tide Line Thames,” 2016 (above) was a two-year project supported by Arts Council England, investigating the shifting riverscape and its architectural structures between high and low tide lines. The Thames in London, contained by high river walls, has a tidal range of up to seven metres. Krinsky exhibited the project's first phase of photographs, paintings, digital scrolls and projections at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, for Totally Thames.”
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“Tropical Thames,” 2017 (above) was an installation of eight large-scale digital prints on Dibond Aluminium panels, and was inspired by Thames architectural structures in southeast London– docks, piers and river walls shaped by centuries of shipping and trade. "Tropical Thames" also responded to the Garden's dramatic roof structure, designed by Foster and Partners, and to its plantings, some of which were species that first entered Britain through Thames docks. Designing the installation involved some time travel, to London’s trading past and to its potential future. In making this work, Krinsky thought about the urgent issue of climate change and the effects of rising temperatures and sea levels on the tidal river.
Krinsky created “The Ephemera Scrolls,” 2019 (above) in St. Augustine’s Tower in the London Borough of Hackney for the show Reading Stones. Artists were invited to make works in response to the history and architecture of Hackney’s oldest building, a 13th century clocktower. Through their respective interests in the land, the body and the cosmos, they explored relationships between time and materiality, on four floors of the Tower. Krinsky incorporated ten photographs she had taken of the River Naab in Bavaria in 2019, during the hottest June on record, part of her project documenting vulnerable wetlands and climate change.
“Anne Krinsky: Wetlands/Shifting Shorelines,” 2021-2022 (above) was an outdoor print exhibition inspired by vulnerable South Coast wetlands she photographed in 2020 and 2021. It was on view for six months at The Seafront Gallery on Worthing’s Promenade. Krinsky worked with projection, photography and digital print to design this series of 16 prints, in a range of river and coastal locations including Lymington, Keyhaven and Chichester, Pagham and Portsmouth harbors. Krinsky stated "It’s heartbreaking to see the overgrowth of algae, from agricultural runoff and dumping of sewage, that is engulfing South Coast wetlands." Information panels about Bird Aware Solent, The Solent Oyster Restoration Project and The Sussex Kelp Restoration Project were presented.
In November and December of 2022, Krinsky was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, where she undertook a period of research investigating the wetlands on the Los Angeles River Corridor and the Southern California Coast. A concrete channel built by the Army Corp of Engineers in 1938, confined the Los Angeles River for flood control, which chuted the water to the Pacific Ocean and wasting it for any ecological or agricultural purpose along the way. The river is flanked by highways, warehouses and railways and the anthrophonic sounds surrounding it are jarring. Krinksy made a series of video clips to document this urban interface with nature.
Anne Krinsky is a London-based artist, born in the United States. In her practice she combines painting, print, photography and projection with archival and geographical research, to investigate overlooked structures in natural and man-made environments. Krinsky is fascinated by the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of the physical world. She exhibited her first project with a UK archive, From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library, at Goldsmiths University of London in 2015. Since then, she has made mutliple installations in response to archived collections in the United States, United Kingdom and India. Anne Krinsky is the recipient of multiple grants, including an Artists International Development Fund Grant, Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, two Artist Bursaries from a-n The Artists Information Company and two Arts Council England Grants for the Arts. The British Museum, Boston Public Library, American collector Graham Gund and Paintings in Hospitals England, have purchased her works, as have numerous corporate and private collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. www.annekrinsky.com
Featured images (top to bottom):©Anne Krinsky, Tide Line Thames 2016, River Walls, acrylic & collage on aluminum panels, 135 x 100 cm / 53 x 39 inches; Tropical Thames 2017, Sea Change / Seeing Double, Digital Prints on Dibond Aluminium. Tropical Thames in Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Canary Wharf, London; The Ephemera Scrolls 2019, St. Augustine’s Tower Hackney, London, 10 Archival Digital Prints on Platinum Etching Paper. Each scroll: 200 x 60 cm / 79 x 24 inches; Wetlands/ Shifting Shorelines 2021-2022, Worthing Seafront Gallery UK, Sea Kale 1, Digital Print on Dibond Aluminium Panel, 90 x 90 cm / 35.5 x 35.5 inches; Los Angeles Wetlands, video clips taken during Artist in Residence at 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California, fall 2022; Artist Portrait.
