Associate paintings conservator, Modern Art Conservation
PhD candidate and 2023-2024 James Arthur fellow for the study of time, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Working dissertation title: The dimensionality of painting preservation and repair in premodern Italy (1250-1550)
Select fellowships/grants/awards:
Predoctoral fellowship, "Simulation and invention as techniques for fixing paintings," Lise Meitner Research Group, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute
Research fellowship, Renaissance Society of America/Samuel H. Kress Foundation
RDM prize for excellence in conservation treatment, Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center
Select publications:
"The Overpaint-ability of Madonnas in 1300s Siena," in The Expanded Field of Conservation, edited by Caroline Fowler and Alexander Nagel, Yale University Press, 2023
"Gel Formulations Coupled with Mechanical Cleaning Techniques to Remove Old Overpaint Coatings," with Irma Passeri and Anikó Bezur, in Gels in the Conservation of Art, Archetype Publications, 2017
"Unusual activities between image and panel," with Irma Passeri in The AIC Paintings Speciality Group Postprints 2019, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Select presentations:
"How a painting signed by Giotto was changed by later artists, and the possibility of collaboration across time," The Frick Collection/Institute of Fine Arts graduate symposium, 2022
"The dimensionality of overpaint applied to deities initially painted by an artist-saint," ICMA-sponsored panel, International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2023
"A Conservator's Dialogue," Panel conversation with Gala Porras-Kim and Emily Frank as part of About/For/To, public programming for "Precipitation in an Arid Landscape," Amant, Brooklyn, 2021
"Manet Harrison Fowler Paints Manet Helen Fowler," Black Portraiture [s] III, Johannesburg, 2016
Press:
"The Prehistory of Conservation and Listening to Artworks," Art in America
"Look closer," Cooper Union Newsletter
Has held positions at institutions including:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (For paintings conservation)
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Summer Institute in Technical Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU/Yale University (For teaching)
Contact: annika.finne@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae