Artist statement
My work bridges fine art, fashion, and craft—transforming textile and metal into sculptural forms that speak to inheritance, resilience, and renewal. Coming from a long-standing tradition of needlework passed through generations of women in my maternal ancestry, I reimagine domestic handwork through a contemporary lens that positions it within the language of fine art.
Trained as a painter at Davidson College and as a copyist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, I bring a painter’s sensitivity to surface, light, and gesture into my three-dimensional constructions. The transition from brush to thread and from canvas to silk and steel reflects my ongoing dialogue between fragility and strength, the handmade and the enduring.
Influenced by avant-garde fashion, corsetry, and the tension between hard and soft, structure and flow—and by traditional techniques such as quilting, embroidery, and smocking—my work treats stitch and seam as acts of architecture: structures of devotion that elevate what was once “women’s work” into contemporary relics. In my hands, the old becomes new: memory becomes material, and craft becomes couture.
At its core, my work is a celebration of liberation and transformation—of transcending boundaries and embodying the magnificent fusion of grace and strength.
ARTIST ALL THE WAY.
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Creative experimentation and discovery with a huge variety of art materials and mark-making methods was an everyday occurrence throughout Annie Broderick’s childhood. Art-making, sewing, fort-building, and exploration in the woods of southern Georgia happened day in and day out when she was young, with Broderick’s mother as both teacher and facilitator. Broderick’s use of fabric and hand-stitching in her artwork honors the needlework tradition that runs through her maternal female ancestry.
Broderick attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, during her high school years, where she developed her skills in painting, drawing, and sculpture. In 2001, she received The Mark Potter Award in Art. She then studied fine art with a focus on painting as a student at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, earning a B.A. in Studio Art in 2005. Broderick received the Douglas Houchens Studio Art Award in Spring 2004. During her junior year, Broderick studied art abroad in Paris, France, where she was a copyist at the Louvre Museum. After graduating from Davidson, Broderick moved to Washington, D.C., and pursued her M.A. in Community Counseling from George Washington University in 2009.
Currently, Broderick lives and works as an artist in Ashburn, Virginia. Broderick has shown and sold work extensively in the Washington, D.C., area and beyond. Broderick’s collectors house her work across the nation, in private collections and in public and corporate spaces. Broderick’s most recent commissions are permanently placed at Reagan National Airport’s new American Express Centurion Lounge.
In 2024, Broderick was welcomed as the newest member of the Workhouse Art Foundation’s Board of Directors. The Workhouse Arts Center, a project of the Workhouse Arts Foundation, is dedicated to making the arts accessible to the entire surrounding community in the larger DC metro area.