Anne Drew Potter, 2008 Matsutani Fellow
resident 2007-2009
 Anne Drew
Potter was born and grew up in Berkeley, California. She attended
Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania for her undergraduate education,
and she received her first Master of Fine Arts degree from
the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan. Upon graduating from
the Academy, Potter was awarded a travel fellowship to the
U.K. through the Royal Academy of Art in London. She pursued
a second Masters, in ceramics, at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Potter is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Archie Bray Matsutani
Fellowship.
"My work bridges contemporary conceptual
and narrative concerns with certain elements of sculptural
tradition to question both our current constructions of identity
as they relate to the body and the manner in which these
are connected to a historically informed sense of self.
I am interested in the moment when the
self-evidence of our own experiences is challenged by confrontation
with the other, the infinity of realities that exist outside
of our own. I manipulate signifiers of gender, race, age,
and other identity characteristics to encourage viewers to
confront their feelings about normalcy, difference, and what
defines human."
To view more work of Anne Drew's go to www.annedrewpotter.com
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