"We gave our minds to it, you see, at last."

Anna Ayeroff

"We gave our minds to it, you see, at last."

Photograph

Regular price $ 250.00 SOLD Sale

Size

8 x10 inches | Original Cyanotype

Frame

Unframed

White

Black

Natural

Mounting

N/A

Matted

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"My artworks are a record of my research, they are methods for searching, they are the documents of my movements back to the land," explains Ayeroff. "They remind me of the value of the wild, of the soil, of the giant majestic mountains. I use cyanotypes to make prints with sunlight, time making marks upon chemistry as the sun shifts overhead. Time collapses. Time is performed. Time moves mountains."

DESCRIPTION

original cyanotype

DIMENSIONS

8 x 10 inches

AUTHENTICATION

Signed by the artist.

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"They remind me of the value of the wild, of the soil, of the giant majestic mountains. They remind me to try to move mountains. They allow me to move mountains. An earnest, perhaps naive, attempt to make the world better."

"My artworks are a record of my research, they are methods for searching, they are the documents of my movements back to the land." -Anna Ayeroff

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About Anna Ayeroff

Anna Ayeroff is an artist and art educator based in Los Angeles. She works primarily in sculpture, photography and film, using her art practice as a research tool. Ayeroff builds imagined perfect worlds, performs rituals of place making and enacts a search for utopia through her work.

When she is not on the road searching for perfect places, her project, "a space (for art)", an art education mentorship program for children and teens based in her studio, is her method for moving mountains. Her work has been included in several exhibitions in Los Angeles and throughout the United States.

My paternal grandfather was born in 1911, in Clarion, Utah, a small farm colony developed by a group of Jewish immigrants who came from New York City. They wanted to live off of the land. They wanted to make a different kind of life than the ghetto life they had always known. They were radicals. The colony failed after a few short years.

My practice starts with a story. Clarion locates me in a lineage. And my practice is built from that place. People searching for a better way of life, people looking to change their worlds, the world. Clarion is my field site, my stage, my flawed foundation.

I read Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s early feminist Utopian story, Moving the Mountain, shortly after my first visit to the Clarion site. Gilman refers to her text as a “baby utopia, a little one that can grow.” She tells the story of a world not so different from our own, with a value placed on community, shared space, goodness. She got me asking, “How do I move mountains?”

Driving is a way to. Mountains shift place in my window frame as I pass. Get in the van. Go.

Photography is a way to. Double exposures. Copies. Multiples. Photography is a method for communing with the past. It is my way of building futures. The photograph is recorded time. It is moments of light made still. The photograph tells a story. The dark room, the sunlight, making records of time passing.

I process my film with a non-toxic developer made from coffee and vitamin C. Caffenol. This is a process rich with flaws. My film is streaked with stains. Scan it and the image is brightly colored, the scanner software strangely interpreting light as nearly neon, contemporary. Printing in the darkroom with caffenol as the developer, stains the paper coffee colored, dating it. I use cyanotypes to make prints with sunlight, time making marks upon chemistry as the sun shifts overhead.

Time collapses. Time is performed. Time moves mountains.

My artworks are a record of my research, they are methods for searching, they are the documents of my movements back to the land. They remind me of the value of the wild, of the soil, of the giant majestic mountains. They remind me to try to move mountains. They allow me to move mountains. An earnest, perhaps naive, attempt to make the world better.

CV

2007-2010 BFA, with Honors, Sculpture/New Genres, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

EXHIBITIONS

2016, Land/Light/Longitude, (With Everything but the Monkey Head), Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles CA

2015, Translations for Co-conspirators, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 2014, Freeway Studies #2: Inside the Quad, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2013, Anna Ayeroff, reDiscover Center, Los Angeles, CA
details coming soon..., The Bryant Loft, San Francisco, CA

2012, Pleasure Cruise, Viracocha, San Francisco, CA

2012, Myths of Progress, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA 

2011, Clarion Calls, Jewish Community Center, Salt Lake City, UT

100/10∆1: Alex Harvey and Anna Ayeroff, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA

2010, Business As Usual, Otis College of Art and Design Thesis Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

2009, High Noon: Same Time, 8 Different Places, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Out of Order, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Ménage à Trente-Sept, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2009, John Was Here, An Exhibition Juried by John Baldessari, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2008, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, LA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2008, Routine reinvented at Otis College of Art and Design for Allan Kaprow: Art as Life, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES, LECTURES

2016, Femmes' Video Art Festival, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, Film Screening

 2013, The Gringas, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, Film Screening

 2011, LISTENING with Alex Harvey and Anna Ayeroff, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA, Performance 

2010, your desires create your universe, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, Lecture

2009, c’est l’amour, Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA, Film Screening
2009, Koniotopia, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, Performance

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2016, Researcher, “With Everything but the Monkey Head” Project, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA
2014, Visualist is Residence, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA

2014, Starry Night Artist in Residence, Truth or Consequences, NM 

2010, Critic's Pick for Clarion Calls in Business as Usual Exhibition

PRESS

She Explores, "Women on the Road, Anna Ayeroff: Moving Mountains," SheExplores.com, May 2016

Moret, A., “Anna Ayeroff: Where is She Now?”, Installation Magazine, March 2014 

Cheng, DeWitt. "'Myths of Progress' Explores Post-Illusionism", East Bay Express, February 2012.

Florenkowsky, Emily. "Inquiry into the Institute of Cultural Inquiry," Meta Magazine, 2011.
Moret, A., “Interview with Anna Ayeroff,” Whitehot Magazine, March 2011 

Harvey, Alex, 100/10∆1: Alex Harvey and Anna Ayeroff, Exhibition Catalog, Los Angeles, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2011