The Procession was featured as the cover page of SASA's 3rd Issue of btwn sheets in May 2021.
A collection of Anya's oil paintings were virtually displayed in UCSB's Glass Box Gallery in Fall of 2020 in a show titled "Together We Can..."
Oil painting, When the Sand Runs Out, won CALPIRG’s 2021 Earth Day Art Contest pertaining to human impact on the environment.
Mortality's Monthly Union was featured in UCSB's Spectrum Literary Journal summer edition in September 2021. (Page 82).
https://issuu.com/spectrumliteraryjournal/docs/spectrum_summer_interior_proof_2
Oil paintings: The First Supper and Those Within the Wheel are accompanied with short stories by Anya as a part of her undergraduate creative research grant. 2021-2022
https://urca.ucsb.edu/colloquium/humanities-social-sciences#Fine%20Arts
Anya gave a talk on May 26, 2022 which focused on three different Bolognese painters all currently displayed at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. She delved into the different ways that women are portrayed in Italian art throughout the 14th-16th centuries.
Oil paintings: Those Within the Wheel, The Arrival Under, The Labyrinth, and Retrieval were displayed at Art Gallery Le Logge accompanied by a four-part short story. 2022
Oil painting, Sussurri, was displayed alongside other works at Bibliothè, Roma. 2023
Via Celsa, 5, 00186 Roma
Oil painting, Liminal, was displayed alongside other works at Arteria Gallery. 2024
Oil paintings, Strappare, Pluck, and The Procession were displayed alongside other works by ARTEL Festival at Arteria Gallery. March 15th-17th, 2024.
Available to view online from March 20th to May 19th. 2024
My oil paintings and short stories center around female empowerment and the exploration of the surrealist world of the subconscious. My work is heavily influenced by my active dream life.
Each night we find ourselves on the threshold of two worlds, the tangible and the intangible, confronted by phantasmic characters we don’t permit ourselves to see amidst the distractions and challenges of modern day life.
The ever present patriarchy is something deeply engraved in our conscious and subconscious minds, something women are constantly aware of and fighting against. My figures and vibrant colors aim to embolden women to express themselves and their bodies without the taboos that accompany the nude or clothed female body. I create dreamlike spaces for these figures, the walls of the canvas acting as traversable portals into the endless realm of what influences our subconscious and what lies beyond the veil.
Anya was born in 2000 in Los Angeles, California, her family originating from Tuscany, Italy. She received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She moved to Bologna, Italy in 2020 to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. After graduating, she lived in Rome for a year before moving to Barcelona.
This black and white portrait is of Amani, one of the protagonists in Anya's fantasy/sci-fi novel that she hopes to have published soon. Through this novel, Anya traverses the topics of female empowerment, social justice, and sustainability.