Anne Bass is an emerging mixed media artist who creates sculptural and wearable artworks inspired by nostalgia and her interest in gore and horror. She is currently working with found objects and unconventional materials, such as wire and paper, to create a crocheted line of conceptual wearable pieces. She was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas and is currently studying and working in Durango, Colorado. She is finishing her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with a minor in Business Administration from Fort Lewis College. She has also interned at the Main Gallery in the Art & Design Department at Fort Lewis College, and is interested in pursuing opportunities in museum and gallery management and other possible future pursuits. She has been a part of the 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Annual Student Juried Show and a group show, Alante Détras in the Main Gallery at Fort Lewis College. Anne is also showing work in an upcoming senior group show, Surge, at the Main and Exit Galleries at Fort Lewis College.
Artist Statement
I find myself enthralled by horror and gore, while still having an unhealthy obsession with the cute and cuddly. My love for fun subject matter comes from a place of nostalgia; longing for my childhood memories. When my brain melts it all together, I get a frankenstein of themes and imagery that fuels my artwork. My goal is to channel these feelings, memories, and concepts into my artwork through thought-provoking and familiar imagery, while still leaving enough ambiguity to invite personal interpretation.
The combination of themes creates a strange sense of humor that I like to play into. But as a result of my own neuroticism, pattern and repetition has also become a theme in my work. My studio practice involves dissection and reinvention through mixed media. Half of the process is intuitive destruction of different objects, while the other half is all in my head. I obsess over creating an exact replica of the visual image and concept that I have conjured up in my mind, derived from the content that I consume and my lived experiences.
Currently, I’m working on a collection of wearables that use unique materials, as a form of conceptual art. I am combining my studio practice of transforming found objects, with my love of crocheting. Destruction and transformation give me the ability to use objects as “yarn”. I’m able to construct a 3d sculpture that then interacts with the body and elevates my concepts. Through my specific use of materials and clothing design, I’m able to express my emotional, nostalgic, and political concepts.
