Anna Schachte
With a broad range of styles and practices, Anna Schachte’s work fixates on American iconography, landscape idioms, and the abstract landscape. Schachte regards herself as a “tourist-painter” who travels through postmodernism with a Romantic outlook. For Schachte, drawing is a way of collecting a souvenir with which to make memories. Her pieces are often comprised of discarded magazines, postcards, and photos found in thrift stores, which she then merges with photo-silkscreens, hand-cut stencils, and drawings to create collages. In doing so, Schachte conflates the banal and the fantastic in order to highlight places that hold emotional merit. In addition to her collage work, her paintings fuse cartoons and architectural rendering via highly textured techniques to create visceral landscapes.
Schachte has held several solo exhibitions at galleries such as Proof in Boston, University Galleries at Illinois State University, and Taxter and Spengemann in New York. Additionally, Schachte has contributed work to group exhibitions at galleries including Eli Ping in New York, The Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, The Arsenal Gallery in New York, and Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco. Schachte serves as a co-founder and co-curator of New York’s REGINA REX gallery. In 2009 she served as Artist-in-Residence at …
With a broad range of styles and practices, Anna Schachte’s work fixates on American iconography, landscape idioms, and the abstract landscape. Schachte regards herself as a “tourist-painter” who travels through postmodernism with a Romantic outlook. For Schachte, drawing is a way of collecting a souvenir with which to make memories. Her pieces are often comprised of discarded magazines, postcards, and photos found in thrift stores, which she then merges with photo-silkscreens, hand-cut stencils, and drawings to create collages. In doing so, Schachte conflates the banal and the fantastic in order to highlight places that hold emotional merit. In addition to her collage work, her paintings fuse cartoons and architectural rendering via highly textured techniques to create visceral landscapes.
Schachte has held several solo exhibitions at galleries such as Proof in Boston, University Galleries at Illinois State University, and Taxter and Spengemann in New York. Additionally, Schachte has contributed work to group exhibitions at galleries including Eli Ping in New York, The Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, The Arsenal Gallery in New York, and Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco. Schachte serves as a co-founder and co-curator of New York’s REGINA REX gallery. In 2009 she served as Artist-in-Residence at Illinois State University, and in the past has received the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Grant in Chicago.
