About the Artist
About the Artist:
Anne Bedrick is a sculptor and painter based in Palm Springs, California. After relocating from New York in 2019, her work expanded in response to the desert landscape—its scale, light, and color informing a practice grounded in vulnerability, human connection, and psychological presence.
Working across painting and sculpture, Bedrick explores the tension between bodily experience and abstraction, allowing form to dissolve, reform, and carry emotional residue.
Her work is collected internationally and has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions, including exhibitions juried by curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and MOCA Los Angeles.
Deeply engaged in the cultural life of the Coachella Valley, Bedrick is a co-founder of Desert Open Studios, an annual open-studio tour supporting over 150 artists. She also helped establish the Modernism Week Art District Tour and the monthly art walks in The Perez Art District, where her studio is located.
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Artist Statement:
Vulnerability and the yearning for human connection are at the root of my practice. With paint and cement, I examine how we hold memory, tension, and the residue of emotions—how they accumulate, shift, and linger within the body and within abstraction. My work is grounded in lived experience, focusing on psychological presence and the weight of human encounters.
My painting practice builds through layered surfaces formed by pouring, spraying, covering, and revising over time. Figures often emerge only to dissolve and re-form, hovering between recognition and ambiguity. Gesture plays a central role, functioning as a record or imprint of human interaction, reflecting emotional and psychological states rather than fixed physical forms.
Sculpture allows me to explore these complexities more directly. Weight and physicality enable each figure to communicate psychological depth—either with the viewer or with one another. Working in cement, I emphasize physical tension, allowing each figure to communicate with one another or directly with the viewer, breaking the fourth wall. The sculptures occupy space as bodies do—bearing psychological depth through posture, mass, and proximity.
Together, my paintings and sculptures form an ongoing inquiry into how connection, vulnerability, and emotional experience are held, shared, and sometimes left behind.