Anna Kunz: Paintings to the Full Flower Moon

Description

Anna Kunz: Paintings to the Full Flower Moon was published on the occasion of the gallery’s eponymous exhibition, which ran from May 15-June 26, 2024. This catalogue features an essay by art critic, art historian, and poet Barry Schwabsky. It includes transparent pages depicting painted fabric that Kunz uses as part of a technique she calls “fabric transference,” in which she presses paint through fabric to transfer a singular composition onto multiple canvases, much like monotypes.

Kunz makes luminous, vibrant paintings with an emphasis on color, material, and process. Her practice thoughtfully considers the viewer’s experience, taking into account—with deep awareness and intentionality—how each work, each gesture, affects the exhibition space and, by extension, the viewer.

Anna Kunz received an MFA from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Kunz participated as an artist-in-residence in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, among others. She is a 2024 Monira Foundation Artist in Residence at Mana Contemporary, New Jersey. The artist’s work has been exhibited at: Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI; TSA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn, NY, and Madrid, Spain; and WhiteBox, New York, NY. Her work is included in the public collections of The Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Block Museum, Chicago, IL; and Columbia University Teachers College, New York, NY; among others. Kunz has been honored with nominations from: Anonymous Was a Woman, 3Arts Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Emerging Artist award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Artadia finalist, Chicago, the Rema Hort-Mann Foundation’s Individual Artists Grant, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. As a current artist in residence with the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ, Kunz lives and works in New York, NY and Chicago, IL.

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. His recent books include The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting (Sternberg Press, 2019) and The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso, 2016) as well as two collections of poetry, Water from Another Source (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) and Feelings of And (Black Square Editions, 2022).