The contemporary artist Angela Gram has been recognized as an artist in residence by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny France and by the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation at Mana Contemporary in NJ. 

She is also a painter, writer, educator and co-founder of Quantumartreview where you can find more contemporary arts criticisms, essays, and interviews.

Having seen animals are fractured, irrational, chaotic and completely lacking an identity, she decided to embrace the modern discourse on animals instead of challenging it as a hierarchy between humanity and nature.

She realized that animals have come to exist merely in the modern imagination, and the realm of the mind distorts and allegorizes and projects onto them. This is the main reason she thinks current animal imagery has such a discordant tension to it.

“I feel like there’s an incredibly specific essence to what I genuinely become passionate about and within that realm, animal imagery never fails to seduce me.  I have a tendency to focus on concepts more than individual artists and as mentioned above, the dynamic between nature and our current culture has been a continual fascination of mine”, she said in the interview on venisonmagazine.

You can see more on her website.