Annie Artell

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Bio: Annie Artell is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. They earned their BFA in Ceramics from California College of the Arts. They are a mentor and educator at Creativity Explored and clay studios across the Bay Area. Artell’s work is rooted in play, preformativity, and radical acts of nonsense.

Statement: Annie Artell approaches her practice as a medicinal endeavor. Artell forges fragments from their daily encounters with the world as a microcosmic way to make sense of an often nonsensical existence. Their recent work is inspired by the term “Disjecta Membra”. It is an obscure term used in archaeology that refers to the methodology of reassembling a text or artifact by piecing together its broken shards, attempting to assemble a whole by collecting its scattered fragments. Artells practice is not only a reflection of fragments made whole but also a ceremonial process of mending herself back together.