Anna Wingfield (b.1987) earned her MA in Art Education from Boston University and a BFA with a focus in Painting from the University of Arkansas. She lives and works in Rhode Island with her husband, Adam Langehough, who is also an artist, their son Jude, and their cat Sushi.

Her paintings are built around a recurring cast of vintage objects, elevated by the meticulous manner in which they are painted, from everyday items to something worth careful observation. Her nostalgia for these objects and the midcentury is entirely constructed, an era in which she didn’t live but feels a close affinity for the decorative details of ordinary items.  Scissors are repeated often as tools used in women’s work such as sewing, crafting, and dressmaking while also creating an undercurrent of tension, depicted in both still life and as props held close to the body.  Still life objects often appear on their own, isolated against plain grounds and studied with the same intensity as a face, a reversal that runs through all of the work, where objects take on the presence of portraits, and the people in the portraits are depicted handling those objects with care, wariness, or intimacy.