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She passed away in 1941. Both my painting and writing styles are influenced by the campy melodrama of Pop artists such as James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol. Over weekly chats they cooked up a scheme: When the young waitress grew up, they’d turn the old black-box theater on Water Street into “Kate’s Place,” where she’d host interesting people doing interesting things.
They are:
3:00 PM: Nicholson Baker: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art
3:45 PM: Lucy Sante: I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
4:30 PM: Oline Eaton: Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented
5:15 PM: Annie Weatherwax: “Monster in a Dress” (a “kinetic short story”)
Annie Weatherwax
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Website
http://www.annieweatherwax.com
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Fiction
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October 2013
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Before turning to writing I had a long career sculpting superheroes and cartoon characters for DC Comics, Nickelodeon, Pixar and others.
Like my visual work, my fiction is bold and colorful with an undercurrent of darknesBefore turning to writing I had a long career sculpting superheroes and cartoon characters for DC Comics, Nickelodeon, Pixar and others. In 2009 I was awarded the Robert Olen Butler Prize for Fiction and I have written for the New York Times. My fictional characters are often inspired by paintings—Alice Neel’s portraits are my favorites.
A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, I am currently a full time painter and writer.
What is most important to me as an artist and a writer is authenticity of voice. My short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sun Magazine and elsewhere. This amazing house was built around a series of my paintingsand my animated short story, “Monster in a Dress,” recently screened at The Corcoran School of Art & Design and is currently being distributed by Good Docs and Sage Publishing.
My current project combines my two creative loves: writing about and drawing people.
Annie Elizabeth (Irvine) Weatherwax (1865 - 1941)
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Biography
Annie was born in 1865.
Like my visual work, my fiction is bold and colorful with an undercurrent of darkness. It is a heightened, stylized wryness that often plunges into darkness. If I had to classify my own voice, I’d call it comic realism. To celebrate the inaugural meeting of “Kate’s Place,” Bolick invited four particularly ingenious writers to come share their latest projects, each more different than the last, all exploring the mysterious, overlapping borderland between the end of words and the beginning of pictures, and/or vice versa.
It was the best job I ever could have imagined, but I was destined to be a writer. Atkinson died. And the boldness of Lorrie Moore’s characters have inspired my paintings.
A neon sign of kicking Rockettes would stretch from the roof all the way to Salisbury Beach.
Time passed. It permeates everything I do.
Yet what drives my work most is my voice—a dark and light, frivolous and grave, sardonic and serious sensibility that feels imbedded in my DNA. In life, as in art, I cannot see reality without seeing the absurdity of it too.
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annie weatherwax
In my early career as an artist, I made a living sculpting cartoon characters and superheroes.
Two years later, the movie was produced by Tribeca films.
My experience with dyslexia has fueled my interest and informed my writing on visual intelligence and literacy.
Throughout my career, I 've maintained a practice as a visual artist.
What is most important to me as an artist and a writer is authenticity of voice.