Art in Public Places - Historic Courthouse - Anna Tomczak

Frederick DeBary, 2005 - Mixed media photographic assemblage

Anna Tomczak
Lake Helen, Fla.

Anna Tomczak received a master of fine arts degree from Florida State University in 1983. Since then, she has been exhibiting and creating her work through various alternative processes in photography, which include hand painting with silver print, collage, assemblage, cyanotype (blue print), transfers and digital Iris prints on surfaces such as water color, hand-made and etching papers, cloth and canvas. 

The artist has exhibitions in the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, the Polk Museum in Lakeland, Pensacola Museum of Art and Atenue de Cadaques in Spain. Anna’s photographs are in the collections of the Harn Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Brooklyn Museum, Tampa Museum of Art, and many corporate collections. She teaches workshops regularly and has been a visiting artist at a number of university art programs.

“The images created with the Iris printing process are a continuation of my work with assemblage of collected treasures. Museums, private collections, friends, yard sales, antique shops, and sometimes the ground (particularly for winged objects) are the source of my visual vocabulary. This constructed language of objects represents my impression of existing and past histories.” – Anna Tomczak

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Mary McLeod Bethune, 2005

Henry Addison DeLand, 2005

Andrew Turnbull, 2005