Anne Arden McDonald (’19) is a Brooklyn based visual artist who makes images on photographic paper without using a camera or a negative.
While still working with photopaper, light, and chemistry, she uses historic processes like the photogram, and experiments to invent other ways of producing images. The methods are an unorthodox collection of materials and techniques from domestic and scientific realms brought into the darkroom, often coaxing or scrubbing an image into the photographic paper. This series explores circles and spheres as atoms or planets, representing the microcosm and macrocosm of recognizable life, as well as a symbol of growth and wholeness.
Anne’s work has been exhibited and published widely, her work is in the collections of six major museums, she has been to five residency programs, taught for six years at Parsons School of Design in New York, and lectured on many topics, mostly photography-related.