Ann Craven
Painted Time: (2020–2024)
Contributions by Christopher J. Brownawell, Anne Collins Goodyear.
Conversation between Jaime DeSimone and Ann Craven
Farnsworth Art Museum, 2025
128 pages
11 1⁄2 × 9 3⁄4 inches
Over the last three decades, Ann Craven has created a
formally innovative and conceptually loaded body of
work that reflects on memory and time. Ann Craven:
Painted Time (2020–2024) surveys the past five years
of her practice, highlighting four of her central
subjects, or what she terms “icons”—the moon, trees,
flowers, and birds. The exhibition sheds new light
on Craven’s richly layered, self-reflexive paintings,
foregrounding the artist’s singular approach to
capturing time through seriality. The accompanying exhibition
catalogue includes a new essay by Bowdoin College Museum of
Art co-director Anne Collins Goodyear and a conversation
between Craven and Painted Time curator Jaime DeSimone.
