DEANNA ANTONY SELECTED FOR AVA a-i-r

November 2020- June 2021

NEW : Deanna Antony artist talk about her work and her residency, March 2, 2021. The 4-minute video is here. 

Astoria Visual Arts is delighted to offer Deanna Antony of Astoria, Oregon, a rent- free studio as the newest AVA artist-in-residence. The studio is located in the Astoria Studio Collective, above Astoria Visual Arts at 372 10th Street. The residency will run November 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.   

Antony is a multi-disciplinary artist working in soft sculpture, painting, and drawing. Her work investigates identity and space by exploring palette, form, and playful expression. Over the last number of years, she has been dissecting the history of painting and abstraction to the point of building the painting out into three dimensions. She uses found materials, specifically clothing, to communicate and evoke time and place, in direct relationship to the body.

Antony says of this opportunity, “The AVA residency [will] offer the opportunity to expand my dimensional and painted works further within a space, the ability to connect with more artists in the area, offer great conversations, share technical tricks and, of course, offer stimulating and inspiring visual content… My work helps me process the world around me. It offers a place to ponder and reflect. Having the space to create is vital to the work. These pieces need to breathe, and they need space to get there. Being near the ocean has opened up this space in me.”

Antony will open her studio to the public during Astoria’s 2nd Saturday Art Walks when safety considerations allow.

Antony received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 2016.