Ann Schnake

  • Micky Colonizer clay and wood
  • necklace of giant pearls and teeth, extraction story clay, wire
  • Clamoring Hands votive silver and gold post colonial hand
  • installation investigating indigo and cotton
  • giant fragile indigo globe cloth, wire
  • Pompeii 2079 installation investigating detritus of our era and post apocalyptic visioning wood, rubber
  • Pompeii 2079 installation investigating detritus of our era and post apocalyptic visioning
  • Poetic prosthetics wood, rubber, cloth 2012
  • pigs feet, glass

Ann Schnake (b. Oakland Ca1955, MFA California College of the Arts 2012) is a social practice and visual artist who builds installations and sculptural works. Her concerns are the activation of objects, space and ideas in failing economic and ecologic systems; she investigates visual, bodily felt,  spiritually laden and coveted materials as pillars of capital, accumulation and ecologic disaster, employing dense and oppositional organic materiality: cotton, indigo, silver, gold, pig parts, wood, feathers, cement, clay.  Her works are exhibited locally and internationally in art venues and in unexpected locations, from gallery to hospital to tent. Often though, Schnake is ringleader of collective endeavors: Dream Farm Commons, founder of an experimental exhibition and project space in Oakland 2018-present; MobileInTent pushing on borders from the permeable walls of a tent (2012-16); Odd Sunday Dinners, a series of curated meals and conversations (2010-14); Traveling Medicine Show and Empanada Stand guest artist at dOCUMENTA(13) Germany (2012):  ArtsChange, exhibitions, performances and social dialogue in public sites in Richmond, CA (1996-2011).

 

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    • Berkeley , CA
      US - East

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