Anne Buckwalter on Art, Life & Everything In Between
Look a little more closely at an Anne Buckwalter painting and you might encounter a few things you weren'texpecting. Indeed, a second examination of that flatly rendered domestic interior may cause you to spot one or two things you might have missed on first sight. Things only observable to more prying eyes.
Is that a whip on the floor over there, next to the rocking horse, for instance? And that looks suspiciously like a dildo standing on the dining room shelf, next to the oh-so-innocent teapot, clock, and horse figurine. And that laptop on the floor, the couple on the screen seem to be connecting most definitely IRL?
From the moired effects on the wallpaper, to the parquet patterns on the floor, Buckwalter permeates her canvases with ambient storylines through intricate adornment and erotic twists.
Rendered in a painting style reminiscent of the Dutch folk art traditions of her Pennsylvania upbringing, Buckwalter’s practice explores female identity and the coexistence of contradictory elements. For her, the domestic interior is most definitely a psychological, and often sexual, space.
