Annie Pendergrast’s paintings draw on the visual language of flowers, vases, stripes, grids, and looping forms, assembling a world where ornament, pattern, and precision converge. Rendered in crisp gradients and graphic color combinations, her compositions feel at once playful and controlled: blooms swell to near-cartoon proportions, stems coil into curling lines, and patterned grounds—gingham, stripes, checkerboards—flatten space while intensifying visual rhythm. While flowers have long served as symbols of beauty and femininity, Pendergrast treats them as formal devices, using their familiar shapes as a means to test color, structure, and compositional tension. Still lifes emerge not as quiet domestic scenes but as sites of compression, where decoration and craft are heightened, and where contemporary design aesthetics give rise to both pleasure and subtle uncanniness

Annie Pendergrast (1989), lives and works in Los Angeles and graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in 2012. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at Bozomag Gallery, Los Angeles and Shoot The Lobster Gallery, Los Angeles; and in group exhibitions at OCHI, LA; Mrs., Queens, NYC; Bozomag, Pasadena; Ingrams, Los Angeles; Bozomag, Marfa; Curve Line Space, Los Angeles; Seasons, Los Angeles; Big Pictures, Los Angeles; Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles; and the Bombay Beach Biennial, Bombay Beach, California.