ON VIEW: March 28, 2025 - March 9, 2026 | Antigravity: Fast colors make a slow eye

Antigravity: Fast colors make a slow eye
rockwell Museum, 111 Cedar St. corning, NY
On view March 28th, 2025 - March 9th, 2026

A site specific installation with many facets to discuss.

As part of our year-long celebration of Color! The Rockwell is pleased to present Anna Warfield’s Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye, our seventh annual Antigravity exhibition that upends our expectations of what and where art can be. Utilizing materials and dyes that will fade over time, the artist celebrates the ephemeral beauty and small tragedies of life

A range of pink hues on soft, bubble-like letters drift down like clouds from the ceiling of The Rockwell Museum’s rotunda. This jumble of words transforms from the legible to the illegible as viewers move under and around, revealing and concealing meaning. These contradictions are crucial to fiber artist Anna Warfield’s practice. Combining their own poetry and research into disarming and whimsical forms that explore complicated topics such as identity, the body, and contemporary life, Warfield creates an environment where visitors can unlearn tropes and embrace the complexities of the human experience.

For this site-specific installation, the artist also collaborated with students from the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts Programme at Corning-Painted Post High School to complete this work of art. We want to recognize the contributions of the following student artists: Alyssa Ainsworth, Keira Ceralde, Finn Chapman, Frederick Collins, Ethan Julien, Lilia Mack, Cora McNeill, Mel Peanasky, Josephine Sauer, Nimue Tubbs, Janice VanGorden, Alyssa Wilson, and Elsa Wood.

Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Venue: The Rockwell Museum