Statement About this Series In her work Anna Caterina investigates memory, imagery, and feelings that draw from her experiences as a child living in a place that was not part of her parents' cultural heritage. Her parents spoke endlessly about their German culture and traditions, meanwhile she was growing up in a different culture in Tuscany, Italy. She felt a contradiction between the two lifestyles. This complicated view of the world is, perhaps, what led her to express herself artistically.
The imagery that Anna Caterina uses comes directly from her memories of the objects and the surroundings she had lived in for so many years: "a little world" within the real world. In her paintings she incorporates both cultures in which she struggled to grow. On one hand there are the images of the Tuscan culture, such as vessels, wheels, bricks, arches, vaults, and columns. On the other hand she uses bold colors and assertive brush strokes to render the energy, the passion, and the strong feelings (both good and bad) of her German family.
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Con Me nell'Impeto
Flusso delle Cose
Prigionia Dorata
Il Passato nel Presente
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Pildner received the Associate of Arts Degree in Art at West Valley College in 2005, and the Bachelor of Arts, Practice of Art, Degree with Honor's Distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007.
