A curator, gallery owner/director, educator and arts advocate, Audrey Frank Anastasi is, above all else, a tireless and dedicated working artist. She has an extensive history of exhibiting her artwork in the United States and abroad. 

 

Ms. Anastasi has been painting the human face and form her entire career. Her figure-based works reflect an awareness of how current social forces influence the way we see and interpret the human subject in art. Renowned feminist art critic Cindy Nemser calls her “a terrific drafts-woman and colorist who paints riveting portraits.”  Andrew McDonnell wrote of her "Grace Notes" series,..."we discover the answer of the figurative painter to the modern predicament of art, mortal through the aftermath: image made laden with the person, article and manifest of time, sent persistent with it."

 

The nature-based works are experimental in process and media.

 

Audrey was born in Baltimore, Maryland and moved to Florida at the age of twelve.  After graduating Magna cum Laude from the University of Miami, Ms. Anastasi moved to Brooklyn, New York, to attend Pratt Institute, where she earned her Master's Degree in Fine Arts. From 1985 until 1994, she taught figure drawing, portfolio development, and anatomy for artists at Parsons School of Design.

 

Audrey Anastasi has been featured in Smart Money Magazine, the Lenny Lopate Show (previously known as New York & Company) on National Public Radio (NPR), the New York Times, New York Daily News, amNY, Pratt Folio, Jewish Week, the arts & entertainment supplements of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (InBrooklyn) and the Brooklyn Courier (24/7), Artworld Digest, Zeek (an online magazine of Jewish culture), Brooklyn Fine Arts (BFA) magazine and On the Issues Magazine.com, and the New York Observer.  Ms. Anastasi has been selected as one of the artists slated to be featured in the launch season of the Art History Channel TV Network Cable Show, 21st Century Artists.

 

Ms. Anastasi has been a member of the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Board of Directors since 2001. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Dance Theatre Etcetera (DTE) and was President of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), the largest artist-run, visual arts nonprofit organization in Brooklyn from 1999 to 2004.

 

Audrey and her husband Joseph are Co-Founders and Directors of Tabla Rasa Art Gallery, 224 48 Street, the first art gallery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. They were honored by the Brooklyn Arts Council in November 2008 for their pioneering work and for their dedication to supporting fellow artists.