ANNEMARIE WAUGH

 (State of play
Annemarie Waugh
Data Moshing Britishness
Installation view
The Lyceum gallery, 
Photo: Gary Mamay
Riverhead, May 5–July 29, 2025
The Show of Delights
Curated by me
Chocka with Delights



“Amazing!” – The Church Sag Harbor
Annemarie Waugh
Bitterest Sweet
Photo: Jess Paul
Sylvester Manor, 
Shelter Island, NY
2025

Bitterest Sweet Website: https://0105481.cargo.site

Annemarie Waugh
Bitterest Sweet
Installation view
Photo: Jess Paul
Sylvester Manor,
Shelter Island, NY
2025


Bitterest Sweet, 2025, is a site-specific art installation presented as part of the Sculpture @ Sylvester Manor: Paradise Lost exhibition curated by Tom Cugliani. The exhibit opened on Shelter Island, NY, on June 14th, 2025, and will be free and open to the public until September 14th, 2025. The exhibit is open dawn to dusk, 7 days a week. Located at Sylvester Manor / 80 North Ferry Road / Shelter, Island, NY.

Bitterest Sweet is dedicated to the enslaved Africans, Indigenous Manhansett People, and the Irish and English indentured servants who lived, worked, and died at Sylvester Manor. Bitterest Sweet features a walkway in the shape of the Nkyinkyim ‘twisting’ symbol of the Adinkra, which represents the Gyaman people of Ghana and the Côte d'Ivoire. The Nkyinkyim is a symbol representing the torturous nature of life's journey and the toughness, versatility, and dynamism required to thrive in it. It is also a symbol of dedication to service. The wavy line, which forms the main component in the design of the Nkyinkyim, depicts the meandering course of life’s journey. These ‘twists and turns’ stand as a monument to the adaptability, resilience, and versatility of those who came before, who navigated through life's complexities with wisdom and strength. The proverb associated with this symbol is “Ɔbra kwan yɛ nkyinkyimii,” which, when translated, means “Life’s road is twisted.” 
Annemarie Waugh
Bitterest Sweet
Watercolor
9 x 12 in
2025

Annemarie Waugh
Bitterest Sweet
Watercolor
9 x 12 in
2025

Ancient clan - Red (From Across the Pond)
House paint on canvas
48 x 72 in
2025

Ancient clan - Blue (From Across the pond)
House paint on canvas
48 x 72 in
2025
Annemarie Waugh
Glistening Squirrels
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Mixed media
107 x 97 in
2021
Annemarie Waugh
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Costumes by Marta Baumiller
Photos: Cliff Baldwin
The Ashley Shift Preserve
2021
Annemarie Waugh
Buried treasure
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Holly berries, concrete
9 x 3 in
2021
Annemarie Waugh
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Documentary video
3:46 
2022
Annemarie Waugh
Hi Digger
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Mixed media, 2021
10 x 120 Feet

A live performance with original music, and dance that invites visitors to consider the fragility of nature through an imagined clear cutting of the Ashley Schiff forest. The project will visualize how nature can be transformed overnight into yet another development or carpark. The sharp, glossy colors of the cut-outs will contrast with the graceful beauty of nature, construction equipment will mingle with the deciduous forest. 





Annemarie Waugh
Barking mad
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Mixed media on oak bark
8 x 10 in
2021
Annemarie Waugh
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Poetry by Michelle Whittaker
Photos: Cliff Baldwin
The Ashley Shift Preserve
2021
Annemarie Waugh
Forest of cones
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy
Mixed media on plywood
14 x 12 in
2021
Annemarie Waugh
Torn (Mistakes series)
Transfer, height: approximately 2 3/4 inches
2014

Mistakes is an ongoing photographic series of unobserved, unperceived, unseen, unheeded, overlooked, inconspicuous, secret, hidden, passed by, unobtrusive, blunders, disregarded, unconsidered, neglected, unrespected, unmarked, unremembered, unscrutinized, unremarked, uncontemplated, unrecognized, 
slurred over, uninspected, lost sight of, ignored, shoved into the background, rephotographed, undistinguished, unexamined, unlooked at marks. 
Annemarie Waugh
Going, going, going, gone - Clam
Pencil on paper
 48 x 97 in
2014
Annemarie Waugh
I love you forever and ever (Chemically speaking)
India ink, fabric on cut paper
42 x 60 in
2025
Collection of the Potato Farm Project.
Annemarie Waugh
Natural Selection
9 x 12 in
2012
Annemarie Waugh
CANvas Food Drive
Art installation
Food drive


1.5 Million New Yorkers Can’t Afford Food and Food Pantries Are Their Lifeline. Tens of thousands have shown up at food banks since the pandemic began People who were already going to the pantries have grown more reliant on them. –The New York Times

Instead of spending $$$ on art supplies CANs of food were purchased and became the art installation. Nonperishable foods were accepted at the gallery and at the end of the show all the foods collected were donated to Long Island Cares and The Stony Brook Food Pantry. 

The goal was to bring awareness and food to where it’s needed. A set of 44 British food slang labels, such as; Bubble & Squeak, fairy cake, scotch egg and be mom were created to wrap around the cans. The cans are then stacked in a pyramid and displayed in the gallery.

Viewers are invited to make a food donation of nonperishable foods canned food (the list of foods accepted will be displayed). They then select a British food label (All 44 labels displayed on a workstation), and wrap the label around their donated cans. In the final step they place their newly wrapped cans with it’s British label on the stacked displays along with the other cans. A Covid friendly setup. 

As an artists gesture I created some signed prints on watercolor paper of the labels and food givers were welcome to take one. 
Annemarie Waugh
CANvas Food Drive
Art installation  
Food drive
Annemarie Waugh
My head in the cloud
Pencil on paper
9 x 12 in
2019
Annemarie Waugh
English Rose (digitalizing)
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 60 in
Annemarie Waugh
Gutted
Acrylic and pencil on paper
22 x 30 in
2018
Annemarie Waugh
Mistake No1
C- print
2013
Annemarie Waugh
Cut piece
9 x 12 in
2024
Annemarie Waugh
Head in the clouds
Pen and pencil on handmade paper
8 x 10 in
2023
Annemarie Waugh
Rewilding
48 x 97 in
Mixed media on canvas
2024
Annemarie Waugh
Square Miles to UK
9 x 12 in
2012

Annemarie Waugh
Grandmas Floor (after Rauchenberg)
Vinyl, acrylic medium on fabric
11 x 14 in
2024
Annemarie Waugh
Sleeping with chatbots
Watercolor 
11 x 14 in
2024
Erased
22 x 30 in in 9 parts
Pencil and plastic flotsom
Toy boy
24 x24 in
2004
The Small and Useless
Mixed media collage 
2024

Miniatures or micro-gestures that serve no purpose except to tickle. Things modernity would discard as inefficient—glimmers, doodles, fragments – Aiden Cinnamon Tea
Annemarie Waugh
Irrational Times
22 x 30
Mixed media on cut paper
2024
Hot flash # 5329 (after Wade Guyton)
Mixed media on wood giphy
2024
Annemarie Waugh
Broken
Ceramic
9 x 3 in
2021
Annemarie Waugh
Slip up
C print
2005
Boom or bust
Annemarie Waugh
Plastic lids in plastic shells
2021
Remembering things past - Across the Pond
Installation view - Isilip Museum
2015
Annemarie Waugh
Embelishments nailed (Bitten series)
2019
Annemarie Waugh
Mistake No342 (after Christopher Wool)
Annemarie Waugh
Gutted (From Across the Pond)
9 x 12 in
2019
Annemarie Waugh
Throw a wobbly
Mixed media painting on wood
2015
Annemarie Waugh
Brolly
Pencil on paper
2016























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