Ann Craven American, 1967

Ann Craven (b. 1967, Boston) has developed a deeply personal yet rigorously conceptual painting practice rooted in seriality, observation, and memory. Working with a consistent repertoire of imagery- birds, flowers, the moon-Craven returns to the same subjects over and over, not in pursuit of variation or novelty, but as an act of visual devotion. Her work resists the notion of progress in favor of sustained attention. Each painting exists not in isolation but as part of a larger, lifelong continuum-what the artist herself refers to as an "archive of visual memory."