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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The Wanderer
2021
Chambray bedsheets

The Wanderer towers over viewers—intestines and reproductive organs spilling from her abdomen— entirely constructed from soft blue chambray bed sheets except for a white pustule on an ovary. Deflated, hyperextended arms and legs spill onto the floor, coiling their way to mismatched beanbag-type appendages. The Wanderer is suspended from the ceiling with clear nylon thread, giving the appearance that she is standing or perhaps walking. But the ridiculously long and ribbon-like limbs paired with the oversized, heavy appendages opposes the suggestion of movement. The wandering referred to in the title is not the movement of the figure in totality but rather is the movement of the uterus bursting forth from its fleshy fabric confines, mimicking the endometrium growing outside of the uterus and the trauma satellite that endometrium incites on the body. Made from two sets of queen-size bed sheets that the artist used for several years, a body oil ombre shadows the artist’s body and time spent in bed.