The Doctor’s Wife
The Doctor’s Wife | paper collage, acetate, and gouache on paper | 75 × 127 inches
The Grocer’s Wife | cut paper collage on paper | 75 × 100 inches
The Photo Engraver’s Wife | cut paper collage on paper | 75 × 100 inches
Installation view
Installation view
The Doctor’s Wife
MCA CHICAGO
UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work
Anne Toebbe
October 7–30, 2011
Toebbe’s meticulously detailed paintings, collages, and drawings comprise a fascinating world of domestic interiors reconstructed from memory and depicted from multiple viewpoints. Her three new large-scale works made of painted paper – The Doctor’s Wife, The Grocer’s Wife, and The Photo Engraver’s Wife – are based on conversations with her mother, mother-in-law, and step-mother-in-law that centered on fond memories of their childhood kitchens and the difficulties of being a wife and mother in the 1940’s and 50’s. with these works, the artist considers the role of women as homemakers and the ongoing centrality of the kitchen within domestic life.
—Julie Rodrigues-Widholm