Kaleidoscope

I am interested in the blending of genders and in exploring what identity is today. These photographs explore the shifting boundaries between conventional gender distinctions. Their aim is to investigate the unique sensuality of the androgynous experience from the point of view of the aesthetic, rather than socio-political: I am concerned with the beauty and…

Sky Is Falling

Ann Chwatsky’s series of pigment ink prints and mixed media is THE SKY IS FALLING. The advent of digital technology has made it possible for us to be inundated with images wherever we go. Televisions, computers, even cell phones now bombard us with images constantly. And because we live in a world that is so…

Curtains

The Curtain Series are large prints which look at the idea of shrouding and hiding. Curtains represent the boundary between the internal and the external while capturing the space between light and darkness. Curtains shroud our internal spaces in secrecy. “It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn the…

My Solar

The Solar System is located within one of the outer arms of the Milky Way, which contains about 200 billion stars. The Solar System[a] is the Sun and the objects that orbit the Sun. These are a planetary system of eight planets[b] and various secondary bodies, dwarf planets and small Solar System objects that orbit the Sun directly,[c] as well as satellites (moons) that orbit many planets and smaller objects. The…

When I Was A Girl

WHEN I WAS A GIRL is a series digital Iris prints. These images evoke the remembrances of the feelings I had when I was growing up, before puberty, when life was still a mystery. The work stems from my longstanding interest in landscape, particularly the iconic landscapes from China and the American West. These are places…

Man

Ann Chwatsky’s other book is THE MAN IN THE STREET, forward by Pete Hammil, Photograph and interviews by Ann Chwatsky, published by E.P. Dutton. This book is concerned with the physicality of labor. The viewer experiences the sensuous variety of men.

Shakers

Ann Chwatsky’s publications include the book, FOUR SEASONS OF SHAKER LIFE, text by Gerald Wertkin, photography by Ann Chwatsky, published by SIMON AND SCHUSTER, which tells the story of the last remaining Shakers of the Sabbathday Lake Community, Maine.