annette(at)annetteweintraub.com
Annette Weintraub investigates architecture as visual language, and focuses on the dynamics of urban space, the intrusion of media into public space and the symbolism of space. She creates projects that integrate elements of narrative, film and architecture within a conceptual representation of space, often using sound to spatialize that structure. Her work is concerned with how our sense of place and attachments to the things that surround us shape our identity and inspire our imagination.
Recent work includes animated and print panoramas that record meditative city walks and a series of virtual still life images that engage the simple objects found in the kitchen, studio and office. Using low-polygon 3D models situated in ambiguous space and complicated by multiple light sources, these collections of the commonplace are transformed. Still life is a humble genre that captures the mystery of utterly mundane objects and through their accumulation, constructs a world.
I am pleased to announce my participation as one of eight artists in the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs public space project, City Canvas. City Canvas is a program designed to permit the installation of temporary visual art on some of the more 300 miles of construction sheds, fences and scaffolding in NYC neighborhoods to improve the pedestrian experience across the five boroughs. For this project, I adapted several of my panoramic images, for the City Canvas artwork templates for 50', 100' and 250' environments. The panoramas of The Myrtle Walks series explore a NYC landscape of vernacular architecture populated by discarded household and industrial objects. This work developed out of daily meditative walks in my studio neighborhood in Brooklyn which focused on the debris of material culture: consumer objects, construction materials, signage and the repetitive grids of grilles and security fencing. My walks document a mixed-use neighborhood where homes and industry contest for space, adjacent yet divergent. I’m attracted to the modest and unexceptional in urban landscape, and to the unexpected connections that emerge from the juxtaposition that occurs in residual spaces. The panoramas contrast a foreground of iconic, brightly colored 3D models of familiar objects against a collaged background of urban architectural textures and photographic fragments.
Open the City Canvas template for The Myrtle Walks PDF.
Go to the DCCA site for City Canvas.
Urban Digital Canvas Shanghai. Curated by Victoria Szabo and He Wei. ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, the Chewing Theory Art Collective, and the City of Shanghai. Part of the 3rd Shanghai International Light Festival in the Changning District of Shanghai. Crystal Bridge, Changning, Shanghai, September 24, 2026-October 8, 2026.
Fringe Vision is an AI-assisted mixed reality work created in collaboration with Dr. Biayna Bogosian, Dr. Slavica Ceperkovic, and Dr. Pierre Jolivet. It presents an eccentric landscape inhabited by discarded everyday objects. Based on extracted style images, the video combines AR screenshots, AI-generated 3D objects and video, set against a complex sonic landscape. This project was displayed in two versions: the complete animation on the Crystal Bridge sunken square projection area, and a shorter excerpt in the Crystal Bridge indoor lobby.