Ann Stoddard
The Best of the Best Juried Art Exhibition, 2017
Ann Stoddard
Exhibiting Artist
Pepco Edison Place Gallery
702 8th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20068
August 11 - 30, 2017
Exhibiting Artist
Pepco Edison Place Gallery
702 8th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20068
August 11 - 30, 2017
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Bio
Ann Stoddard is a visual artist working in installation, video, site-work, and drawing, who is represented by A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn. Stoddard’s previous art practice consisted of painting, drawing, book art, and printmaking. In 2016, her work was displayed in ten exhibitions, including two shows in Brooklyn and a pop-up solo at 39th Street Gallery (Gateway AC). Stoddard has had 25 solo shows including: “Seeing Things” at 39th Street Gallery’s Pop-Up, 2016; “WAVE (water, board)” PASS Gallery (DC) 2009; “REGISTRATION” Radford University Museum 2007; “Fish Soup” Ohio University’s Siegfried Gallery 2006; “WAITING ROOM” School 33 Art Center (Baltimore) 2003; “Surveilling Utopia II” District of Columbia Art Center 2003; “Ge/yNEAOLOGIES,” SPACES Art Center (Cleveland)
and N Street Gallery (NW/DC)... Stoddard’s awards include: Individual Artist Fellowship 2017 (Prince George’s County Arts Council MD); Juror’s Award in “Art as Politics” National Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC, 2016; 1st Prize in the 2015 MNCPPC Juried Exhibition “N/ever Again” Harmony Hall Art Center, MD; Chairman’s Award, Biennial 2002 Peninsula Fine Arts Center VA; multiple awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and from the Prince George’s Arts Council. Stoddard’s exhibitions have been reviewed in regional and national publications including The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, AfterImage Magazine, Athens OH News Review, Muslim Link, and The Milwaukee Sentinel. A Maryland resident, Ann Stoddard has taught art and art history since 2011 in the Department of Art at Montgomery College. Previously, Stoddard taught full-time undergraduate and graduate courses at Ohio University, at New Jersey City University, Lincoln University, and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and taught part-time at Salisbury University, UMBC, MICA, American University, and Indiana University- Bloomington. Stoddard has held Visiting Artist positions at MIAD, Cal Arts, and the Virginia Museum of Art. Stoddard’s art writing appears in Afterimage Magazine and has been published in the New Art Examiner, Washington Review of the Arts, and Arts Ink. Stoddard pursued graduate work in painting and drawing at Columbia University, earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a BA in Studio Art from Connecticut College. Stoddard completed post-graduate coursework in video production and final cut pro (Ohio University); lithography, linguistics, critical theory, rhetoric and narrative (University of Maryland); poetry (Temple University); novel-writing, poetry, performance, and dance (Naropa Institute). |
Artist Statement
"The video installation social sculpture “ColorBlind” reframes the viewer via 11 micro-cameras/monitors housed in hoodie sweatshirts, encouraging empathy with victims of racial profiling. Hoodies are calibrated from light to dark, from hands-down to hands-up. In reverse surveillance, “Colorblind” ‘watches the watchers’, invites viewers to explore the relationship between his/her live screen image, clothing, and racial profiling, to question the prevailing assumption that one is free of racial bias.
References include Shiva, Jesus, victims of racial profiling. The “SEEING THINGS” series is an artistic response to rising racial and ethnic profiling, systemic surveillance, and the popularity of personal devices. Public space is borderless and open, with changing contexts and contradictory points of view. The “SEEING THINGS” series invites an active viewer role and addresses the politics of seeing by proposing to deconstruct ethnic and racial stereotypes." 
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