(re)Focus at Paradigm: Anna Tas: Lenticular Work 2008 - 2023; Anna Tas/Diane Burko: Bearing Witness (Lenticular Collaboration)

Paradigm Gallery + Studio® was established in 2010 by co-founders and curators, Sara McCorriston and Jason Chen. The gallery exhibits meaningful, process-intense contemporary artwork by emerging and mid-career artists from around the world.

As part of (re)Focus, Paradigm is presenting work by lenticular artist Anna Tas, a graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, as well as Tas’s collaborative work with renowned artist and FOCUS founder Diane Burko.

Tas presented her first lenticular series in Philadelphia in 2008 and has since gone on to show and sell her work around the world. The newest series that will be part of the display, In Praise of Entropy, is, Tas says, a response to the wider chaos of the world - the pandemic, the global geo-political situation - the sense of things spiraling out of control. “In 2021, I moved back to the UK with my family, and reconnected with many places I loved as a child - including the great stained-glass cathedral windows of Canterbury Cathedral, and the tidepools of the Kent Coast. Made with the flotsam and jetsam I have accumulated through my career, fragmented, yet whole - the seemingly random and ever-changing connections that weave us all together.”

Tas met Burko shortly after moving to Philadelphia in 2004, and remain close to this day. They began their collaborative work in 2019, and produced the first chapter of lenticular pieces as part of Burko’s “Kai’Apapa” (to the reefs) project. From that point on, they have come together to explore and further the conversation about how the natural world is impacted by climate change, from Diane’s field observations of salt flats, lithium fields and sandstorms in Chile’s Atacama Desert, to the ever-growing threats of wildfires and mass deforestation.