ANNA TORK, A NEW YORK-BASED ABSTRACT ARTIST

Anna Tork lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side by the river, where the shifting light, open water, and rhythm of city parks shape her practice. Her paintings explore the balance between translucence and weight: poured washes seep into raw canvas, forming passages of color that spread and pool, while darker, grounded shapes hold the composition in place. Some forms press against one another; others seem to hover, as if floating in air.

Tork discovered modern art as an adult and was drawn to its freedom to define structure in new ways. Earlier works reflected landscapes from Joshua Tree to Lake Como. Her recent paintings turn inward, to the ordinary patterns of daily life—walks along the Hudson, shifting skies, evenings painting after her daughter is asleep.

Her process is intentionally slow, sometimes adding only a single form before stepping away, allowing each work to build gradually. Through this layering, the paintings become records of time passing: not grand events, but impressions that remain—the light across a floor, the quiet of dusk, the memory of a moment held in color.