Kat Richards
Anna Wehrwein
Curated by Toan Vuong
SHAG
March 8th 7:00-10:00 PM
With DJ Ol’ Moanin’
Closing: March 28th
“Shag” is an otherworldly color explosion using paintings and a monoprint stencil technique. Both artists use color palettes that are intended to be theatrical, fantastic and mysterious.
Currently, both artists are residents at the Queer Materials Lab, at Tyler School of Art.
Anna Wehrwein is an artist originally from the Boston area. Shereceived her BS in Art and BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, and West Branch Literary Journal. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent shows at AUTOMAT Collective (Philadelphia, PA), The Warbling Collective (London, UK) the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC). She was a finalist for the Hopper Prize in 2018 has been an artist in residence at MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and Anderson Ranch Art Center. She currently lives in Columbia, MO where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri.
Kat Richards is a Philadelphia, PA based artist that works in printmaking, drawing, and fibers. Richards received their B.F.A (2016) in Fine Arts from the University of Kansas and their M.F.A. (2019)