Annika Connor "In Chaos We Trust"
Annika Connor "In Chaos We Trust" 2020
Painting, Oil on Linen, Framed
Dimensions: 16 x 20in, Framed 17.5 x 21in
Unique
Signed on verso, includes a certificate of authenticity
Annika Connor, a modern Renaissance Woman, is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and actor who has lived in New York City for over twenty years. Annika Connor received her BFA in 2002 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied Painting & Performance. Since then, she has participated in numerous groups and solo exhibitions in the USA and internationally.
Connor has received cultural grants from the American Scandinavian Society. She was the first Round Grant Recipient of the NY City Artist Corps Grant, which was awarded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), the NYC Mayor'sMayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), & the Queens Theatre. Annika has also been awarded grants to support her art from The Rauschenberg Foundation, Stephen King's Haven Foundation, Tory Burch Foundation for female entrepreneurs, Motion Picture & Television Fund, Entertainment Community Fund, SAG AFTRA Foundation, and the Episcopal Actors Guild.
Since 2015, Annika Connor has primarily exhibited with The Untitled Space in Tribeca. Before that, she had a solo show at QF Gallery in East Hampton, NY, and exhibited with FordProjects, a gallery in midtown that Ford Modeling Agency owned. From 2020 to 2022, she exhibited at the NY Google Office Headquarters in the Chelsea location.
Annika Connor’s paintings are owned by private collections in Atlanta, Bahamas, Baltimore, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Brooklyn, Cannes, Copenhagen, Chicago, Dallas, East Hampton, Edinburgh, Florence, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, London, Miami, Monte Carlo, Montreal, Moscow, New York City, Nice, Toronto, Shanghai, Southampton, Stockholm, Washington DC, West Indies, Vancouver etc. A member of SAG-AFTRA since 2007, in 2023 Annika Connor was elected to serve on the SAG-AFTRA New York Board.
Connor is an Upright Citizens Brigade certified Improv Actor and has studied comedy writing and performance at the Magnet Theater, the Peoples Improv Theater, and the Blueprint Screenwriting Group. Annika seamlessly balances time in the studio with writing and life on set, finding that the three interests often overlap. Currently, Annika is writing her first novel while also shopping around her feature film screenplay WorthIt for development.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I made this political piece, “In Chaos We Trust,” when Trump was President the first time. When chaos and greed seemed to rule the nation. When Trump was campaigning the first time, he talked about draining the swamp. Then, it felt like his idea of doing that was to dump all the nastiness of that swamp into his White House. This painting depicts that time of chaos and references the money behind the scenes causing all the trouble.” - Annika Connor
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