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Antigravity: Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye

From March 28, 2025 to March 9, 2026

Location: Museum Entryway (Floor 1)

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As part of our year-long celebration of Color! The Rockwell is pleased to present Anna Warfield’s Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye, our seventh annual Antigravity exhibition that upends our expectations of what and where art can be. Utilizing materials and dyes that will fade over time, the artist celebrates the ephemeral beauty and small tragedies of life.

A range of pink hues on soft, bubble-like letters drift down like clouds from the ceiling of The Rockwell Museum’s rotunda. This jumble of words transforms from the legible to the illegible as viewers move under and around, revealing and concealing meaning. These contradictions are crucial to fiber artist Anna Warfield’s practice. Combining their own poetry and research into disarming and whimsical forms that explore complicated topics such as identity, the body, and contemporary life, Warfield creates an environment where visitors can unlearn tropes and embrace the complexities of the human experience.

For this site-specific installation, the artist also collaborated with students from the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts Programme at Corning-Painted Post High School to complete this work of art. We want to recognize the contributions of the following student artists: Alyssa Ainsworth, Keira Ceralde, Finn Chapman, Frederick Collins, Ethan Julien, Lilia Mack, Cora McNeill, Mel Peanasky, Josephine Sauer, Nimue Tubbs, Janice VanGorden, Alyssa Wilson, and Elsa Wood.

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Fast Color Makes a Slow Eye is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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About the Artist

Anna Warfield

Anna Warfield (she/they, b. 1995) is a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, New York. Her predominantly text-based fiber sculptures consider unlearning and identity.  

Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum (Corning) and has a solo exhibition at the Everson Museum (Syracuse) opening in June 2025. Additional solo exhibitions include UNDOINGS at SUNY Oneonta (2024) and Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids at the Roberson Museum (2023-2024). Warfield has exhibited with MAG Rochester, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Schweinfurth Art Center, Ithaca Print Shop, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, and the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes amongst other spaces.  

Recent awards include a NYSCA Artist Support grant, a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship, a Community Foundation for South Central New York Women’s Fund grant, and an Arts in the Community Individual Artist Commission. Warfield holds a B.F.A. and B.S. in Communication both from Cornell University where her 2018 thesis received the Charles Baskerville Painting Award. 

THANK YOU

2025 exhibitions are made possible by Mary Spurrier.

Fast Color Makes a Slow Eye is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.