Ann R Shapiro

About the Artist

“Ann R. Shapiro creates mournful beauty from the changing weather patterns of an increasingly inhospitable world”.
Eleanor Heartney, Bibliophilia: In Excelsis  

Ann Shapiro’s work focuses on climate change and landscape and consists of digital collage, combining details of Shapiro's own work, photographs, and found images from the internet. For Shapiro initially, and maybe always, the work selects the medium.

Summering in Stonington, Maine on Deer Isle, the home of her grandparents and the birthplace of her Mother and aunts and uncles, Shapiro forged a strong connection to the ocean, its ebb and flow and to its subarctic weather. Understanding that warming temperatures are changing out planet in incalculable ways, Shapiro’s work is focused on telling this planetary story. The lack of attention and pitiful response to this issue is both disconcerting and heart-breaking. All of Shapiro’s work presents information about this situation, visually aiming to make viewers aware of this coming catastrophe. The climate and Shapiro are both raging.

Ann Shapiro lives and works in New York, NY. She holds a PhD from NYU in Administration and Higher Education. Since 1980s, Shapiro has been exhibiting her work in New York City and supplementing her education at the National Academy of Art, The Art Students League, School of Visual Arts, Joseph Wolins Studio, and other notable schools. Shapiro has been exhibited in institutions such as the B’nai B’rith Klutznick Gallery in Washington DC and the Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College (New York, NY). Her work is in the collection of the Racine Museum, the Heller Museum, New Hampshire College, The Museum of Modern Art Library, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, and other notable collections. She is a part of Ceres Gallery in New York City where she has had several solo exhibitions.