Anna Plesset

In Anna Plesset’s work, the distinctions between creator, maker, and imitator collapse as the past is grafted onto the present. The resulting space is that of a fiction – one in which the boundaries between reality and illusion are blurred and their unstable relationship to history, memory, and perception examined. Like a minimalist tableau, Plesset’s installations are a staging of the studio as a site for recovery and discovery in which the perception of familiar objects slowly changes as the limitations of material and reality dissolve. 

Anna Plesset has participated in group shows across Canada and the United States, most notably at Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle (2008), Jeffrey Boone Gallery in Vancouver (2009), the Gelman Gallery at the RISD Chase Center in Providence (2011) and Mixed Greens in New York (2011). She participated in the AIRspace residency program at the Abrons Arts Center in New York, NY and the Terra Summer Residency Fellowship in Giverny, France.