Annette Rusin is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She maintains a diverse practice working conceptually and from direct observation to create drawings, site-specific installations, and sculpture. She has a background in architecture with a B.Arch from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College. Rusin’s work has been shown at venues such as NURTUREart, Boston Center for the Arts, Morehead State University, Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University Newark, Bronx Arts Space, Trestle Gallery and John Michael Kohler Arts Center. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Millay and is an Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts grant recipient. Currently, she is a Faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in their English Visual Arts Program, in the Art & Design Department at the Harlem School of the Arts, and most recently joined Touro College as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Art Department.
Annette Rusin
Studios
Heinz
Annette Rusin worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…