Anne Eastman: Careless Water at Kent Place Gallery

The Kent Place Gallery will present an exhibition of art by Anne Eastman, from Friday, November 14 – Thursday, December 19, 2024.  There will be a reception for the artist from 5:00-7:00 p.m. on Friday, November 15. 

Anne Eastman’s exhibition includes layered, glass forms containing both found and hand-made images, as well as a hanging mobile and scattered sculpture created from ripped fragments of the daily newspaper, and a looping video work.

Eastman has said about the nature of her art in this show, “The fragments of the newspaper, in this case, all torn from the New York Times, leading up to, during and in the aftermath of the Pandemic of 2020 and the last election year, are strung up in a mobile, floating, wobbling, drifting in space, or alternatively, pressed between glass, obscured by the Sumi ink spilled directly on the glass. The glass pieces are double sided works, or mirrored, reflecting the verso side of the fragments of newspaper.  They are chance collages, a play between incomplete images and texts from a distant, indecipherable and familiar past.  A new video is presented alongside these works, overlapping recordings shot on my iPhone in 2024, a document of movements through the material and the mediated world.”

Gallery Director Ken Weathersby said of Eastman’s art, “Her works, and her arrangement of them in our gallery are beautiful. The artist has made the whole space part of her statement, even including wooden benches from our art class as sculptural supports. The fantastic inclusiveness and open-endedness of her forms seems to speak to the complicated tensions and ongoing conflicts of this moment, and how we receive understanding of those things in fragments and over time.”

Anne Yuki Eastman (b. 1973, San Francisco) is a Japanese and Irish-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY, and Nikko, Japan. Raised in Singapore and Tokyo, she holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Smith College and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art. Her work engages with personal archeology, complicating mediums and cultural boundaries. She has presented her work in solo exhibitions in New York, Vienna, and Zurich, and more recently exhibited at Anomaly Gallery in Tokyo, and previously in two-person and group exhibitions across the US and internationally. In 2015, Eastman founded an artist residency at Troedsson Villa in Nikko, Japan. She has also curated exhibitions in Tokyo and Nikko, most recently at Tetsuo’s Garage, an artist-run space she established in 2017.

For an appointment to view the exhibition, contact Gallery Director Ken Weathersby:  weathersbyk@kentplace.org

Kent Place Gallery is on the campus of Kent Place School, 42 Norwood Avenue, Summit, NJ