Anna Faye Korngute is a mixed media artist who uses her experience as a modern dancer to influence her art making process. Whether in her dye-painted cloth, ceramics, large figurative charcoal drawings, watercolors, collage or video - the influence of movement in her work is expressed.
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She writes: “During this last year of solitude I have come to realize how integral dance is to my art making process. As an improvisational dancer, movement is where my artistic process begins:
I close my eyes and allow myself to move to that place where we feel intensely vulnerable.
Where our primitive secret feelings live.
That jagged, frenetic, outburst.
An eruption of euphoria, ecstasy.
A secret place because it’s personal.
Revealing.
I translate movements into gestural figurative calligraphy. I do this on cloth using liquid dye. This work is typically two-sided: representing the face of what we present and our inner vulnerable side that we keep hidden. The dye process itself, furthers the relationship of my work to the body. I feel the similarity between how dye merges, uniting with cloth and how experiences bleed into us on a cellular level. I embrace the effects of time and imperfection, celebrating the scratches and frayed edges like wrinkles and silver strands of hair.
For some of us, the memories of this time alone has become imbedded into our skin making us hesitant to touch each other again. It has become vital to me that my work can be taken off the wall, put on a chair or bed or serve as a prayer shawl to wrap around us and bring comfort. Standing in as the embrace we have all been missing from our loved ones, reminding us that there is still beauty in our humanity and frailty.”
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You can view her work at thecanyonstudio.com.