I combine practices of painting, print, photography and video with archival and geographical research, to investigate overlooked structures in natural and man-made environments. I am fascinated by the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of the physical world. Architecture and geometry also inspire me, and my work navigates between the fleeting and the fixed.
I trained as a printmaker, but found I was more interested in exploring variations on a theme than in printing editions. Setting out to print an edition of twenty, I would end up with twenty unique images. I didn’t become a printmaker in any traditional sense, but layering – of ideas, images and media – still lies at the heart of my process.
I have been working on an international project about vulnerable wetlands and climate change since 2018, beginning in the Thames Estuary. I since have expanded my research through grants, residencies and exhibitions in the US, UK and Germany. I am drawn to habitat edges—where land meets water, where freshwater meets the sea, and where nature collides with human activity. This work records both the beauty of fragile ecosystems and the impact of human presence.
I use photographic documentation as a foundation to create multi-media responses in print, video and installation. Through these works, I seek to engage audiences with the urgent environmental realities facing wetlands and watersheds, and to foster awareness of the climate threats that imperil them.
American / British artist Anne Krinsky works with paint, print, photography and video. She has created installations in response to archived collections in the UK, the US and India. Her US solo shows include The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts; Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston; Soprafina Gallery, Boston; and a 10-year retrospective at the Trustman Gallery at Simmons College, Boston.
She exhibited her project From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library, at Goldsmiths University of London in 2015. Her Tide Line Thames project investigated the river and its architecture between high and low tide lines, for London’s Totally Thames in 2016 and in 2017. Tide Line Thames culminated with a video installation in the Brunel Museum Thames Tunnel Shaft and with Tropical Thames, a digital print installation in Crossrail Place Roof Garden, commissioned by Canary Wharf Arts.
Anne Krinsky has been developing an international project about vulnerable wetlands and climate change, beginning with documentation of the Thames Estuary in Southend-on-Sea, England in 2018. Through grants, residencies and exhibitions in the US, UK and Germany, she has expanded her research across global sites. Her documentation of South Coast wetlands in England led to overlapping shows in 2021-22 in Worthing, England – outdoors on the Seafront and at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. In 2022 and in 2024, she was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, where her research focused on Southern California wetlands in the shadow of freeways.
She has been awarded multiple grants, including an Artists International Development Fund Grant; Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant; two Arts Council England Grants for the Arts; and two Artist Bursaries from a-n The Artists Information Company. The British Museum, Boston Public Library, American collector Graham Gund and Paintings in Hospitals England have purchased her works, as have numerous corporate and private collectors on both sides of the Atlantic.
Additional residencies include KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Willapa Bay AiR, Oysterville, Washington; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain; Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY; Sanskriti Foundation, Delhi, India; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany.
Top: Video Still, Los Angeles River Glendale Narrows, 2022. Bottom: Studio Shot, Photo Credit: Sebastien Pons.