Anne Sherwood Pundyk

Painting as Theatre of Agency

Anne Sherwood Pundyk

Painting as Theatre of Agency

  • Paintings
  • Works on Paper
  • Photographs
  • Printmaking
  • Exhibitions
    • "Unbound" Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH, March 7 - May 30, 2025
    • "Beauty Out of Bounds," Solo Exhibition, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY, March 23 - May 5th, 2024
    • North Fork Art and Artists, Orient, NY, 2022 and 2023
    • "Materials Matter," Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH, June 20 - September 10, 2022
    • "Permission to Create: The Legacy of Mary Sherwood Wright Jones," The Works, Newark, OH, February 5 - April 2, 2022
    • "House Paint and Other Essays," TheBrownstoneArt, Park Slope, NY, September 19 - October 17, 2021
    • Detour II, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY, June - September 2021
    • "EARTH - Artists as Activists," Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY, April 17 - July 11, 2021
    • "Redwing Blackbird" Outdoor Artwork, Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton, NY, Summer 2020
    • "As Far As The Eye Can See," Group Exhibition, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY, April 11 - May 16, 2020
    • Private Commission on the North Fork, 2019
    • Worlds Within Worlds Installation, Greenport, NY, September 8, 2018
    • "EMINENT DOMAIN," Flash Feminist Art Exhibition, Chelsea, NY, July 2018
    • Selected Group Exhibitions 2016
    • "Unconditional Paint," LIU Brooklyn Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 6 - October 28, 2016
    • "The Revolution Will Be Painted: Deux," Solo Exhibition of Paintings, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD, March 2016
    • "The Revolution Will Be Painted" Solo Exhibition of Paintings, Christopher Stout Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April 2016
    • "Milk and Night," Group Exhibition, Gallery Sensei, New York, NY, September 2014
    • "Stadia," Solo Exhibition of Paintings, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY, 2013
    • "Self Taught," Studio Installation, New York, NY, September 2013
    • "RENTED WORLD," Solo Exhibition at The MAve Hotel, New York, NY, December 2012
    • "Parallax Painting," Installation in MATERIAL TAK, Panepinto Galleries, Jersey City, NJ, June 2012
    • "Rapunzel Retrospective Installation," Solo Exhibition, Queens College Art Center, New York, NY, March 2012
    • “Mourning Tower” Queens College Art Center, New York, NY, May 5, 2011
    • "A Semblance" exhibition of paintings, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY, 2010
  • Performances
    • Strange and Wonderful for Beauty Out of Bounds Exhibition, Riverhead, NY, May 5, 2024
    • Flag Field Performance, Mattituck, NY, June 5, 2021
    • UN-CRUSHING YOUR SOUL, performance May 16, 2020 and video July, 2020
    • EMINENT DOMAIN "Tales" Performance, Chelsea, NY July 12, 2018
    • VSOP Projects Artists Reading, December 17, 2017
    • "Numbers and Lines," Performance at Launch of The Forgetory issue #3 ANXIETY at Dillon Gallery, NY, August 26, 2016
    • "The Revolution Will Be Painted," Opening Performance, Christopher Stout Gallery, New York, April 1, 2016
    • "Painting and Activism," Lecture and Square Dance, Marymount Manhattan College, November 11, 2015
    • Video Reading for Hysteria Magazine New York Launch, Otion Front Studio, September 3, 2015
    • "Eye Machine" Performance, Samadhi Arts Launch, August 29, 2015
    • North Fork Square Dance, June 14, 2015
    • "Worlds Within Worlds," Familiars Quarterly Launch, Baby's All Right, May 2015
    • "Day of 1,000 Venuses," November 23, 2014
    • Bushwick Art Crit Group Feminist Panel Discussion, November 14, 2014
    • "Clitney Perennial," Rogue Gathering, Whitney Biennial, May 2014
    • "Sacred Nipples" Video Screening, The Last Brucennial, March 2014
    • "Wolf Moon Gathering," GAG Magazine #2, MoMA PS1, January 2014
    • GAG Discussion Group in "Between The Door and The Street," by Suzanne Lacy, Brooklyn Museum and Creative Time, October 2013
    • "Stadia" Interactive Events, Susan Eley Gallery, November 2013
    • Girls Against God Magazine Issue #1 and #2 Launch Events, Printed Matter, June 2013 and MoMA PS1, October 2014
  • Artist's Books
    • The Garden
    • Tool Books
    • Book Shirt
    • Transformed Books
    • Paint Box Book
    • Live Books
    • Recognition Books
    • Wall Picture Books
    • Books from Essays
    • Fine Arts Magazine
  • Photo and Time Based Work
    • Photoworks
      • Paint Box Prints
      • Collage
      • Persephone
      • KUTVP
      • Photoglyphs
    • Paint/Dance Works
    • Video
    • Archive
      • Paintings 2014 - 2015: Worlds Within Worlds
      • Paintings 2012 - 2013: Stage
      • Paintings 2008 - 2011: Self
      • Works on Paper
      • 100% Real Painting (Versailles)
  • Writing
    • Space Sister's Press Publication: "The Garden" by Anne Sherwood Pundyk
    • Franklin Furnace Archive Essay: Creating "The Garden"
    • artcritical
    • Hyperallergic
    • The Brooklyn Rail
    • Art in America
    • Painters' Table
    • Art511 Magazine
      • ART21 Magazine
    • Artist Statements
    • Hamptons Art Hub
    • Anne Sherwood Pundyk Artblog
      • HYSTERIA
  • Braincake Blog
  • About
    • CV
    • Reviews, Essays, Interviews
    • Biography
    • News
    • Studio
    • Footnote
  • Press
    • More Reviews, Interviews and Press
    • "UNBOUND, Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Amanda Love," Art Access Gallery, Press Release, March 7, 2025
    • The Suffolk Times, March 19, 2024
    • East End Beacon, April 19, 2024
    • Art Spiel Interview, April 18, 2024
    • Artist's Books at Denison University Virtual Conversation, May 4, 2022
    • artcritical, March 8, 2022
    • The Newark Advocate, March 15, 2022
    • Permission to Create coverage on Daytime Columbus with Robyn Haines - January 26, 2022
    • The Large Glass Interview - October 5, 2021
    • House Paint and Other Essays, Solo Exhibition at TheBrownStoneArt, Press Release September 2021
    • Artful Circle Profile by Jaqueline Covey, August 2021
    • eARTh - Artists as Activists, Southampton Arts Center Press Release April 2021
    • As Far As The Eye Can See, VSOP Projects, Gallery Statement, March 2020
    • Washington Post Review of The Revolution Will Be Painted Deux
    • artcritical Review of The Revolution Will Be Painted
    • Hyperallergic Review of The Revolution Will Be Painted
  • Contact


For Immediate Release 

 

“ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK: House Paint and Other Essays”

Solo Show Opens Sept. 19th at TheBrownstoneArt, Brooklyn, NY



Brooklyn, NY (August 19, 2021) TheBrownstoneArt is pleased to present new paintings and photographs by Anne Sherwood Pundyk, September 19th through October 17th.


Pundyk works with paint and unstretched canvas on the floor, the wall and the sloping lawn outside her studio on the North Fork of Long Island to make large-scale paintings of color-stained and stitched fabric panels. Alongside these works she bases her photographs around her daily notebook writing, creating images using a home office scanner, Photoshop, an iPhone and a glitchy archival inkjet printer. Pundyk’s expansive abstract paintings and intimate color photographs of handwritten journal pages have a presence both familiar and otherworldly.


Much of the paint Pundyk applies to full-scale sections of unstretched canvas is free to flee across the surface in rivulets; or in contrast, to soak deeply into the fabric forming coastlines and diluted tidelines. She sews the canvas panels together by machine, constructing a fundamental anatomy distinct to each work. Employing simple tools such as string, a tack and straight edge, Pundyk draws systems of assertive overlapping circles, grids and zigzags in colored pencil. Subsequently hand-painted, the bold, geometric shapes create flashpoints of color poised at various depths in the painted space. The artist uses Indigo blue as a somber, yet soothing foil for her otherwise high-key palette. Finally, dashed seam lines trail off in untrimmed threads at the paintings’ edges. 

 

A selection of photographs from a total edition of 15 “Paint Box Prints,” reveal a meditative series of variations on a theme. The image of an open, handwritten diary is placed in the center of each print. The book pages are framed by two consecutive boarders, as if zooming out, using a progression of digital manipulations. The nested images are photographed against multi-colored woven surfaces, under shifting, imperfect natural light conditions.


The artist moved her studio from Manhattan to the rural town of Mattituck, NY in 2014. She draws inspiration from another East End painter, the late Alan Shields, who said about his own artwork,“…The work goes through far more steps than it looks like. In the end, hopefully it just looks like it doesn’t have any steps in it at all. It’s just there.” Pundyk’s on-going interest in creating an authentic expression through her materials is reinforced by her observation of the every-changing North Fork landscape, with its transitional meadows, wetlands, fields, forests and waterways.


A selection of the artist’s videos, artist books and journals will be on view during the exhibition.


Anne Sherwood Pundyk is a painter and writer based in Mattituck and Manhattan. She has recently exhibited her work at The Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY; East End Arts, Riverhead, NY; and VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY. Her video about painting, “UN-CRUSHING YOUR SOUL” was published this spring in The Loculus Journal of performance and dance.

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@annepundyk


TheBrownstoneArt, located in Park Slope, was founded in 2019 by David Backus and Josh Voegelin. The gallery focuses on contemporary abstract and conceptual artwork.

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@thebrownstoneart

 

Exhibition Details:


“ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK: House Paint and Other Essays”

September 19th to October 17th

TheBrownstoneArt

129 Park Place

Brooklyn, NY


In-Person Opening: September 19th, 1 – 6 pm

In-Person Closing: October 17th, 1 – 6 pm

 

Details for additional exhibition events are forthcoming.


The exhibition may be viewed in person by appointment. The gallery is following current COVID-19 guidelines and kindly requests proof of vaccination.


Contact: David Backus and Josh Voegelin:

email: thebrownstoneart129@gmail.com

or call: (917) 453-3143


Works available on Artsy

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All images copyright the artist, 2025.

 

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