Across the Pond, an exhibit of paintings and prints by Annemarie Waugh, will be on view at the Lyceum Gallery in the Montaukett Building on Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus from March 12 through April 17, 2025. A reception for the artist will take place on Thursday, April 3, from 4 – 6 p.m., with light refreshments provided. The event is free and open to the public.
Born in Birmingham, UK, Waugh explores British culture in her work, painting glimpses of tartans, animals, foliage, and iconic characters from British television. She also incorporates silkscreened expressions of British colloquialisms from her upbringing, layering them into abstract compositions on canvases that reach up to six feet in size. The exhibition also features original illustrations from her upcoming book, Across the Pond, set to be published this spring.
Waugh’s exploration of language began in 2015 as an art installation, where she chalked British expressions onto a 10 x 20 ft. wall, with their meanings decoded on an opposite wall. This project later evolved into a book examining the richness of British phraseology. In Across the Pond, she invites viewers to embrace the humor and nuances of language, incorporating English, Irish, Welsh, Gaelic, Scottish, Cornish, and Yiddish sayings.
She writes: “The England I grew up in was chockablock with clotted cream, loaded baked potatoes, pints of beer, jumble sales, Victorian seaside piers, Ribena, soggy vegetables, and drizzle that never quite let up. My memories include moss, wit, tea shops, scrummy cakes and biscuits, fish and chips with mushy peas and curry sauce, dampness, nincompoops, and an aversion to taking life too seriously.”
Waugh emigrated to New York in 1994 and now resides in Setauket, NY. She earned a BA from Central Saint Martins, London (1992) and an MFA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University (2021).
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