Areas of Expertise
Painting
collage
printmaking
design
teaching artist
Anne Polashenski is a mixed media artist living in Rochester, NY. She currently teaches visual art in the Rochester City School District. Polashenski grew up in Liverpool, NY where her childhood home was filled with gold patterned velvet flocked wallpaper and large vibrant paintings of gypsies and matadors, chandeliers and red carpeting - very 1970s. She draws her eccentric taste from that style. She creates dense and complex compositions built from painted paper, drawings, photographs and gouache paint. Polashenski has been inspired by her Polish ancestry, by her travels and by the challenges that confront her as she approaches other cultures. The patterns and structures of other cultures, in their unfamiliarity, become the tools with which she learns familiarity, both with herself and with other people. These experiences help her reflect upon her own culture and clarifies her relationship with it.
Anne Polashenski has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. In previous years, she was in residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, at St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta, Malta, the Art Factory in Bialystok, Poland, at Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. Anne Polashenski currently lives and works in Rochester, NY.
B.A. in Studio Art, Plattsburgh State University, Plattsburgh, NY
Double Concentration in Painting & Printmaking
Master of Fine Arts in Combined Media, Hunter College, New York, NY