Volusia County Courthouse - Anna Tomczak

Coastal Volusia, 2001 Iris print

West Volusia Iris print

Anna Tomczak
Lake Helen, Fla.
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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 layers of imagery are derived from various processes, which include color and black and white Xerox photo copies transferred with a thinner onto water color paper, collaged with blue and brown print, Polaroid transfers, drawings, original photographs and vintage postcards. The final collage/assemblage with three-dimensional objects and artifacts then was photographed with a digital back on a 4x5 camera and printed with the Iris print process, a digital drum printer of high resolution. For ideas I looked through the archives of the DeLand House Museum and the West Volusia Historical Society, Stetson University, the Halifax Historical Society and many more for months.” – Anna Tomczak