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FISH SOUP<\/em> (detail)
video projection installation; 2006
FISH SOUP<\/em> (video projection installation) uses random juxtapositions to explore the poisoning of the Ohio River Valley: interviews, wall text, conceptual art, and interactivity. Juxtaposed wall projections prompt questions: factory smoke blowing on, for example, fresh bok choi in a local outdoor farm market; residents testifying about toxic emissions by chemical factories and high cancer rates; texts warning tap water and local fish are carcinogenic. Projectors silhouette viewers within thee industrial landscape of the Ohio River Valley\u2019s \u201cpolymer alliance zone.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ann Stoddard
Adelphi, Maryland, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My interdisciplinary art practice includes montage, reinscription, site specific, interactive, socially engaged art\/technologies, including drawing-based video animation; reframing prompts viewer empathy: video-installation-social sculptures; viewer-created-montage-outdoor-signage; quad-screen with video delay\/reframing\/context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I devised new approaches to Multi-Channel Video Installations:
\u2022 Quad-screen electronic installations: quad-switcher, video dvd\u2019s, live CCTV with TIVO delay. Examples: interactive video installation, \u201chome.land.security\u201d Interactivelive-delayed-video of the viewer (TIVO), video-text, recorded video, performance
\u2022 Directing, recording and editing videos exploring implicit bias, i.e. ethnic bias, \u201cSeeing Things, Headscarf\u201d; and racial bias, \u201cSeeing Things, Personal Devices\u201d
\u2022 4-Channel video juxtaposes live, delayed-video of viewer & locally recorded video: Random juxtapositions make connections that, for example, undermine implicit biases, raise doubts, prompt empathy.
\u2022 Incorporate viewer\u2019s shadows & random juxtapositions in multichannel video wall-projection installations: FISH SOUP<\/em>, Tall Stack Theory<\/em>. My videos & site-specific installations engage viewers with context (social, racial, ethnic), expand roles of viewer-witness:
\u2022 WAVE (water, board)<\/em> site installation dealing with waterboarding, combined flag context with live- and recorded video, missing torture memos site context.
\u2022 Interactive Video Surveillance Installations appropriate public space
context ex. CCY+TV surveillance, waiting rooms, service windows, sign-in registration, orientation, etc.
\u2022 Reinscription display installations:
o Permanent transparent outdoor signage \u2018Viewer created montage\u2019 reinscription signage: Outdoor signage Installations: Historical Landscape Reinscription via Viewer-Created-Montage transparent signage, for example, \u201cGenealogy of Towers, Re-Searching the American Landscape\u201d
o \u201cThe Political Economy of Side Chairs\u201d reinscribes reproduction chairs and earth with the economic statistics of enslaved people and stolen land via screen-printed panels.
o \u201cBared Threads\u201d incorporates reverse English\/Arabic labeling–hand embroidery on wedding veil, nun\u2019s veil, hijabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann Stoddard is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation, video, sculpture, site-work, drawing, printmaking. A member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, Stoddard\u2019s solo shows include: \u201cConcealedCarryLand\u201d (2019) at Tuttle Gallery, Baltimore; \u201cSeeing Things\u201d (2017) at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn; \u201cSeeing Things\u201d (2016) part of the 39th Street Gallery Pop-Up in Maryland; \u201cWAVE (water, board)\u201d (2009) at PASS Gallery in Washington, DC; \u201cREGISTRATION\u201d (2007) at the Radford University Museum; \u201cFish Soup\u201d (2006) at Ohio_University\u2019s Siegfried Gallery; \u201cWAITING ROOM\u201d (2003) at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore; \u201cSurveilling Utopia\u201d (2003) at the District of Columbia Art Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stoddard\u2019s juried\/invitational-group-exhibitions include: \u201cSymbiotic Presence\u201d (2020) at the Brentwood Art Exchange Gallery; A.I.R. Gallery National Members Exhibitions (2016 through 2021); \u201cArt Against Gun Violence\u201d (2018) in Washington, DC; \u201cUpRooted\u201d (2018) and \u201cCreate\/Change\u201d (2017) at Hillyer Art Space in Washington, DC; \u201cArt of Engagement\u201d (2017) at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC; \u201cThe Personal is Political is Personal\u201d (2016) at 440 Gallery in Brooklyn; \u201cArt as Politics\u201d (2016) at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC; \u201cImplicit-Bias\u201d (2015) at Smith Center in Washington, DC; \u201cZeitgeist UnderSurveillance\u201d (2008) at Nevin Kelly Gallery in Washington, DC; \u201cAccelerating Sequences\u201d (2005) at MOCA GA; Annual Juried Exhibition at COCA in Seattle; \u201dFrom Your House to Our House\u201d (2002) at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; \u201c2002 Biennial\u201d at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Virginia; \u201c2002 Biennial\u201d at Lemmerman Gallery at New Jersey City University; \u201cCulture of Class\u201d (2000) at Maryland Institute College of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann Stoddard\u2019s awards include: 2021 Artist\u2019s Grant, Maryland State Arts Council; 2020 Alternate Roots Professional Development Grant; 2019 Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Award; 2019 Independent Artist Award. Artist Fellowship 2017 (Prince George\u2019s County (Maryland) Arts Council); Juror\u2019s Award,\u201cArt as Politics\u201d (2016) Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC; 1st Prize 2015 MNCPPC Juried Exhibition \u201cN\/ever Again\u201d at Harmony Hall Art Center in Maryland; Chairman\u2019s Award, 2002 Biennial at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Virginia. Stoddard\u2019s exhibitions have been reviewed by newspapers including The Washington Post<\/em>, The Baltimore Sun<\/em>, Athens News Review<\/em>, The Milwaukee Sentinel<\/em>; and by national art journals including Sculpture Magazine<\/em> and Afterimage Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stoddard has taught art full-time at Ohio University and New Jersey City University, and served as a visiting artist at Cal Arts and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Stoddard is an adjunct art faculty at Montgomery College and Prince George\u2019s Community College. She reviews art for Afterimage Magazine; The New Art Examiner. Stoddard’s academics include: graduate program at Columbia University, MFA from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BA from Connecticut College, including post-graduate coursework at the Naropa Institute in novel-writing, poetry, performance, dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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www.annstoddard.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Political Economy of Side Chairs, Reinscription Site Installation<\/em>
10’x8’x8′; printed acrylic panels, red clay (site), reproduction Queen Anne chairs; 2000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Political Economy of Side Chairs <\/em>(detail)
10’x8’x8′; printed acrylic panels, red clay (site), reproduction Queen Anne chairs; 2000.
The Political Economy of Side Chairs<\/em> (reinscription site installation) reframes American Colonial history via economic statistics (tobacco\/enslaved workers\/cheap land), a 6\u2019x7\u2019 display case, & freshly dug clay (dug on site). Queen Anne chairs (reproductions) are surrounded by clear panels screen-printed with devastating graphs, data [\u201cLand and Slave prices in Chesapeake, 1720-1775\u201d]. The 18th c. U.S. economy that made mahogany chairs affordable for upper class, Southern whites now makes them look like evidence of slavery and stolen land. The panels float an inch above the red clay base.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Genealogy of Towers, ReSearching the American Colonial Landscape<\/em> (installation view: Organization of American States Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC)
7’6″x6′; viewer-created montage, reinscription signage installation reframing the Washington Monument. Transparent screen-printed acrylic panel of archival photo of “old slave tower”, i.e., Calvert Plantation slave quarter; welded steel signage; 1997<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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