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Color! Lecture Series | Loaded Color: How Plenty of Pink and Bits of Blue Imbue Meaning with Anna Warfield

Thursday, January 30, 2025

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: The Rockwell Museum

Open to the public | Members: Free, Not-Yet-Members: $10, Students: $5 | Advance registration encouraged  

6-7 p.m. | Lecture 

7-8 p.m. | Members-Only Reception   

Color is core to understanding the work of The Rockwell Museum’s upcoming 2025 Antigravity artist, Anna Warfield. Pink is plentiful in Warfield’s practice, and pockets of blue emerge as well. Learn about Warfield’s approach to color as it relates to her upcoming site-specific installation which focuses on material, space, dimensionality and color. Through this lecture, you’ll see how Warfield uses visual elements, including color, perceived as comforting to mask an assertive and confrontational narrative. Explore the evolving cultural histories of pink and blue to better understand our contemporary associations, and see how Warfield’s artwork challenges our associations with both colors.  

Members-Only Post-Lecture Reception  

Rockwell Members are invited to join us for a post-lecture reception on the Museum’s second floor. Meet The Rockwell’s new executive director, Erin M. Coe, and mingle with lecture speakers, fellow members and more.  

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Anna Warfield (she/they, b. 1995) is 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 and has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Everson Museum opening in June 2025. Recent solo exhibitions include UNDOINGS at SUNY Oneonta (2024) and Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids at the Roberson Museum (2023-2024). Warfield has exhibited in recent years 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.

Recent awards include a NYSCA Individual Artist 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.

 

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