Bio

Anna Redman is a visual artist who predominantly creates through drawing and printmaking. In 2022, Redman received her BFA in Drawing from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Her work explores themes of ritual, possession, and exorcism through the use of additive and subtractive mark making as a way of examining the causes and effects of ruminative habits. In 2025, Redman was accepted into the 5th Cohort at the Cedars Union, and she received the The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Grant through the Dallas Museum of Art. Her work has been shown throughout Texas, and she currently lives and works in Dallas, TX.

Artist Statement

Possession, exorcism, and ritual purification are common themes that ground my work, as they are utilized to depict conflicts living inside the human form and the obsessive impulse to expel them from the body. Though my creative process is based in drawing, this classification is pushed through the use of three dimensional hanging processes and non-traditional surfaces. 

Imagery within my work is frequently figurative, with forms being rendered through the use of expressive mark making made both additively and subtractively. In working monochromatically, the distinction between the surface and media are emphasized. Charcoal is used to create a strong contrast in values both literally and metaphorically. Though it has connotations of purification and ritual cleansing, it is also a residue that permeates the air and easily contaminates anything it touches. My imagery is frequently figurative, with bodily forms shaped using a combination of additive and subtractive mark making. The eraser holds equal weight to charcoal in terms of expressive mark. 

Pain and pleasure, which are typically considered opposites, often draw from the same source and the past that dwells within the body can simultaneously cause comfort and unease. My work emphasizes this duality, often comparing and combining subjects through shadows, reflections, and translucency. These elements are engaged as a way of indulging in the effects of past experiences, while also alluding to how the internal forces used to manipulate my actions and behaviors lead to feeling as though I am not in control of my own body.