Anna Cowley Ford

Anna Cowley Ford

  • Studio Sale
    • Postcards
    • Sassy Bird Cards
    • 2022 Wall Calendar
    • 2017 Wall Calendar
    • Practically Life-Size Sculptural Busts (2012-2022)
  • Projects
    • The Pain Away Clinic (2018-2019)
    • Theme Song (2025)
    • Silhouette Studies (2025)
    • Solid Clay Head Goes to the Prairie (2023)
    • Suet Head Goes to the Pasture (2022)
    • Bread Head Goes to the Green Space (2022) Video
    • Bread Head Goes to the Beach (2022) Video
    • Suet Head (2022)
    • Commodify Me (2022)
    • MeMe (2023)
    • Depression (2022)
    • Bread Head Goes to the Green Space (2021)
    • Hamburger Head (2021)
    • Bread Head (2021)
    • Bust Planters
    • Bust Vessels
    • Postcards (2021-2023)
    • Healthcare Aesthetic, 2022 (2021)
    • Medical Self Portraits, 2017 (2021)
    • Coccyx Cushion (2022)
    • Re/cliner (2021)
    • [this is meaningful to me know]: Please take one if you would like to. Perfect for refrigerators, altars, and strangers! (2021)
    • The Wanderer (2021)
    • Endometriosis (2021)
    • Grinding Video (2021)
    • Grinding (2021)
    • Crushing (2020)
    • Tree of Death (2020)
    • Self Portrait (2020)
    • Fatigue Reclining (2020)
    • Triggeres: Prodrome, Migraine, Postdrome: Time To Go [insert obligation] (2020)
    • Fatigue (2020)
    • Prodrin Side Effects / Rebound Headache Cycle (2018)
    • 2008-2018 (2018)
    • Dilemma: A Decade of Chronic Pain VIDEO (2018)
    • Weekly Calendar/Journal (2017)
    • Chronic Pain Pathway (2017)
    • Chronic Pain Fortune Machine (2016)
    • Triggers/Aftermath (2015)
    • Cylinder Trees
      • Cylinder Tree, Carbon, Texas
      • Cylinder Tree, The Eastland Hotel, Texas
      • Cylinder Tree, Dallas, Texas
      • Cylinder Trees, Texas
      • Cylinder Trees, Iowa
    • Medication as Drinking Vessels (2015)
    • Migraine Pathway (2012)
    • One Week's Medication
    • October 27, 2010
    • November 2008
  • Exhibitions
    • Open Immediately / Package to be opened by patient ONLY!
    • POV your insurance stops covering two medications that are the biggest part of your treatment plan and now you’re barely a functional person, Olive DeLuce Gallery
    • Open Studio, Center of Gravity Residency
    • Momentary Certainties, Eagan Art House
    • 2022 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
    • Under Skin: Ceramic Studies of Chronic Migraine, Grinnell Area Arts Council
    • West End Collectif Art Show, Art Terrarium
    • Pain Away Clinic, OL Guild
    • Dilemma: A Decade Of Chronic Pain, Love Oak Pharmacy
    • The Dragon That Never Sleeps: Living With Chronic Migraines, The Small Gallery, Dallas
    • The Dragon That Never Sleeps: Living With Chronic Migraines, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
    • January 27-28, 2011
  • Functional Ware
    • Plates and Platters, 2022
    • Yunomis, 2017
    • Mugs, 2017
    • Bowls, 2017
    • McMichael Commission, 2014
    • Ghadiri Commission, 2014
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2018-2019
Installation

The Pain Away Clinic is an immersive installation at The OL Guild in Des Moines, Iowa that is a faux doctor’s office that replicates and heightens healthcare’s aesthetic. The Clinic highlights how the healthcare industry’s interior design can unintentionally impact patients. The clinic is also critical of the pharmaceutical industry with a rack of medications packaged similar to gas station snacks which include realistic medications warnings. For example Topamax: “will make you forget what day it is or how to do basic algebra.”