Anna Arielle Chapman

My art is a quest for healing and interconnectivity in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. I am passionate about the intersection of art, education, ecology and healing. I believe that interdisciplinary approaches to art are necessary to meaning-making in the context of the Anthropocene. I am inspired by post-colonial, post-human, Celtic, and indigenous perspectives, aiming to mobilize toward reconciliatory relationships to place, community, materiality, and voice.

I use both representation and abstraction to create an aesthetics of entanglement. In doing so, I engage a wide range of mediums and substrates, including wild-crafted paints to reflect the natural landscape and recycled newspapers to archive human affairs. On a technical level, I am formally trained through the Rhode Island School of Design and 10 years of subsequent independent study. If possible, I work as large as on a one-to-one scale with my subject matter to create an immersive, relational field between the viewer and the artwork.