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October 21 through November 11, 2005
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Art Access Gallery
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Access II Gallery
"Pippi Longstocking" drawings by Anne Watson |
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The artist uses the device of a childhood doll Pippi Longstocking with her childlike, yet sophisticated drawings to deal with serious current day happenings.
She says, "Life is like a movie sometimes. And the movie is Alice in Wonderland but sometimes Alice is Pippi and life is a place and everything is up down. I cannot make sense of place very well, or time, or sense, or
nonsense. I cannot place 'place' in a traditional box if I am frustrated, itty bitty and bouncing off the walls. Maybe life really is a movie and Pippi is the trickster, my trickster. She took me on a trip through this new landscape called America. Take me farther, Pippi, because the funny thing is you see the world up down too and place to you is also a place in the mind where there is in a moment of thought, a moment of clarity for at least in that moment, a person, a trickster who can own the thought. And now down again we go through the rabbit hole. And lookey here more oil, greed, comfy, comfy chairs and TVs, guns, bombs, trains, blood, acts for patriots. Up down, I say. Up down."
Anne Watson was born in SLC, left at 18, went to college in Massachusetts, moved to NYC, lived there 18 years, and returned to SLC three years ago. She has a BA in Studio Art and English from Smith College and an MA from NYU in Studio Art She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Venice, Italy,NYC, and SLC. |
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