Anna Lee Hafer

Anna Lee Hafer is a studio artist in the Philadelphia area who graduated from Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York, in 2019. Her art includes studio exhibitions at Davison Art Gallery and Rochester Contemporary Art Center in Rochester, New York, as well as published images or broadsides in Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Westchester Review, The Penn Review, The Pine Cone Review, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. Her work is heavily influenced by...See more

Anna Lee Hafer is a studio artist in the Philadelphia area who graduated from Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York, in 2019. Her art includes studio exhibitions at Davison Art Gallery and Rochester Contemporary Art Center in Rochester, New York, as well as published images or broadsides in Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Westchester Review, The Penn Review, The Pine Cone Review, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. Her work is heavily influenced by such surrealist painters as René Magritte, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso, all of whom strove to build their own realities through small glimpses into a particularly confusing, but utterly unique, worldview that dictates its own specific set of instructions. In her work, Hafer pours and layers paint to create dimension and texture, mixing different styles and colors onto each other until they produce a 3D effect. Through marker and pencil that create shadow, she further enhances these forms and separates them from the background. Heavier layers and thicker brushes in the foreground of her work push the painting toward the viewer, whereas the thinner layers and small brushes in the background elongate the space and push away from the viewer. By juxtaposing interior and exterior elements, Hafer makes the audience question whether they are looking at something inside or outside. For additional information, please visit www.hafer.work. See less