Anita Clearfield

Anita Clearfield is a video installation artist who paints with line, color and the play of light, creating video installations that may utilize anything around her as well as more traditional materials such as oil on canvas.  These installations combine the tradition of figurative expressionism with modern technology to create transcendent moments and ironic commentary on human struggle.

Also a documentary filmmaker, her awards and grants include a Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival; First Place, San Antonio Cinefestival; Bronze Award, Houston Int’l. Film Festival; Juried Selection, Festival of New Latin Cinema, Havana, Cuba; Juried Selection, Women’s International Film Festival, Florida; Juried Selection, Camden International Film Festival, Maine; the Maine Film Academy’s “Galvanizing Leadership Award; an American Film Institute (AFI) Independent Filmmakers Grant; a Paul Robeson Media Grant; a Maine Humanities Council Grant; a Maine Community Foundation Grant; and a Rockefeller Foundation Grant.

Her work most recently appeared in the Juried 2011 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibit at the 808 Commonwealth Gallery.  She holds a BFA in film from Syracuse University and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art & Design at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown.  She lives and works in Durham, Maine.