Thesis Exhibition: March 27-30, 2013

Opening Reception: March 29, 6-8pm

Apples and Oranges
installation. dimensions variable, 2013

Apples and Oranges
installation. dimensions variable, 2013

Anya Antonovych Metcalf was born in 1980, and grew up in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. She earned a B.A. in English Literature with a Minor in the History and Philosophy of Science at McGill University in Montreal, and a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Anya has lived in Scotland, France, China, and the Bahamas, and has traveled widely in Asia, Africa, the United States, and Europe. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.

As a colorist, Anya often plays a high, saturated, upbeat color key against a more melancholy line denoted by subject matter or title to create a dynamic tension between form and content. She works in a variety of media. In her thesis exhibition, Anya presents a series of playful, abstract, collaged oil paintings that reference childhood, and a game / installation titled “Apples and Oranges”, which invites the viewer to examine the process by which he or she identifies attributes in order to categorize objects. In her practice, she explores our relationship to who we have been, who we are, and who we want to be, and critiques the categories by which we define ourselves.