Anna Gray

Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Artist statement

As an artist I focus on the complexity and beauty of science. Topics that we don’t know or fully understand intrigue me: time, light, but also the physical experience of how the body inhabits space. The Unknown is my biggest source of inspiration. In my work, I expose what is normally out of sight. Using cross-sections, magnification and transparency, my objects show what is hidden and literally below the surface, creating new vantage points and conceptual understandings of how we understand the material world. Glass has been the material in my practice which I use mostly. It holds a poetic compound: it’s strong yet vulnerable, and it’s heavy weight can appear light like a feather. The transparency of glass can make you wonder if an object is there – or not. Glass has the ability to transform the fluid into the concrete, the elusive into (what might be) a reality; a moment becomes a sculpture or installation. Qualities like deformation, magnification, transparency and fluidity visualize my concepts. Thanks to glass, my ideas about the things we do not know and cannot see come to life.

Artwork

• I n t e r s t i c e, 2017. blown glass, birch ply, water
• no title, 2015. blown glass, photograph
• Surface Tension, 2021. blown glass, silvered
• Remembrance, 2015. blown glass, photography
• In the Beginning, 2019. blown glass, latex
• Explore Rembrandt, 2019. blown glass, print of Rembrandt
• Corner of The Curve, 2019. blown glass, minerals, steel
• Remembrance, 2015. blown glass, photography