Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette

Lansing profiles Connecticut artist Anna Held Audette, highlighting the exhibit of her works Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme CT. Audette discerned loveliness in decay, creating images of the disused factories, machines, and scrapyards that are...

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Published inAmerican art review Vol. 35; no. 3; p. 92
Main Author Lansing, Amy Kurtz
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Stratham American Art Review 01.10.2023
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Art galleries & museums
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Summary:Lansing profiles Connecticut artist Anna Held Audette, highlighting the exhibit of her works Abandon in Place: The Worlds of Anna Audette at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme CT. Audette discerned loveliness in decay, creating images of the disused factories, machines, and scrapyards that are modern ruins. Her works attest to America's ascendance and decline as a manufacturing titan between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The often-considerable scale of Audette's paintings, and their depiction of rusting machines in the places where they were made or used, position her compositions somewhere between landscape, still life, and abstraction.
ISSN:0092-1327