After earning her B.A. from Drew University in 2005 and her M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 2008, Anne Percoco received an Asian Cultural Council fellowship which allowed her to live and work in India for seven months. During this time, she realized a solo exhibition at Bangalore’s Chitrakala Parishath College of Fine Art plus three public projects. She also participated in residencies with the Bangalore Artists’ Center, the Sandarbh Workshop on Site-Specific Art, and the environmental N.G.O. Friends of Vrindavan. 

Anne has shown her work in venues such as Exit Art in New York, the U.S. Botanical Garden in Washington D.C., Under Minerva Gallery in Brooklyn, Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, the Parachute Factory in New Haven, and, in New Jersey, the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art in Long Branch and Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson University in Wayne. Current activities include a residency with the non-profit Residency Unlimited and an A.I.R. Gallery fellowship, which will culminate in a 2011 solo show. 

 I approach art making not as creating something completely new, but as reorganizing what is already there. I respond to my immediate surroundings, especially with regard to found materials. Each material has its own formal properties, which are just as important to me as its local, historical, and environmental resonances. In this way I treat found materials like artifacts, as things to be learned from. Also for this reason, my work tends to be tactile and immediate, with a sensitivity to texture.

My artistic process is based in resourcefulness, curiosity, responsiveness, and playfulness. I spend as much time exploring and researching as I do making. My site and community based work keeps me grounded, and I appreciate the challenges of learning from and communicating with a general audience. When making work for a gallery setting, I enjoy greater control and freedom. There is a place in my practice for both ways of working and showing.