Annette Wehrhahn

Title: Eye Idol
2019
22.5/30
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Bio: Annette Wehrhahn uses her imagination to inventory human fragments that speak to her physical experience; eyes, breasts, feet, hands, a uterus and a foot ensconced in high heels. The unexpected arrangement of these familiar parts can be comical and surreal but also speak to the awkwardness of these fleshy forms we find ourselves in.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in Copenhagen, Denmark and Milan, Italy, and recently in Luxembourg at Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery. She has been in numerous exhibitions across the Untied States, recently at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and has work currently on view in Dallas, Texas at Horton Gallery.

She is the program co-ordinator in the MFA Art Writing Department at the School of Visual Arts where she also teaches in the Visual and Critical Studies Department. In 2010 she co-founded artist run space Soloway Gallery and has continued to curate exhibitions and act as a gallery director ever since. She received a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Painting from Bard College. Annette Wehrhahn is based in Brooklyn NY and is co-director of Soloway.

Soloway Gallery is an artist run space in South Williamsburg that has hosted over 60 exhibitions and countless performances and screenings in the past 9 years. It was conceived of as a platform for artists to support one another outside the commercial gallery system. It has succeeded in creating a community of artists and a relevant dialog around contemporary art practices. Soloway's exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, the New York Times and the New Yorker.