Anna Keis is a designer and sculptor whose practice explores the boundaries between material and organic form. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025 with a BFA in Furniture Design and is currently based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Anna works as a freelance fabricator with Kadan Productions, a prop fabrication company in Secaucus, where she has contributed to installations for Hermes, Target, OpenAI, and more.
Her work has been shown during New York Design Week as part of the 5th Head Hi Lamp Show, in Gelman Gallery’s exhibition In-Between: Spaces of Belonging, and in the RISD Furniture Design Senior Show Is It Cake. Beyond sculpture and design, Anna also works as a freelance textile designer and illustrator.
Anna’s artistic production is centered on challenging the perceived rigidity of materials. By warping and welding metal, she makes the inanimate appear alive and shifting, transforming cold structures into objects with personality and soul.
Currently Exhibiting in: Brooklyn, NY
Web: annakeis.com
Instagram: @anna_k_eis
LinkedIn: Anna Keis
Featured Artwork at Bushwick Gallery
Title: Sarcina
Year of Creation: 2025
Medium: Aluminum
Dimensions: 10 in L x 8 in W x 12 in H
Edition Type: Unique, 1 of 1
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Price: $2,000
Description
Sarcina draws inspiration from the unseen microbial world living on and within our bodies. Even in the most intimate human moments, there exists a vast, invisible ecosystem. This piece seeks to make that hidden world tangible, celebrating its beauty and complexity.
Created with aluminum through TIG welding, the process itself plays a crucial role in the work’s visual language. Layering the filler rod over the metal creates an irregular, grotesque surface that feels as though it is alive, oozing and growing. By pushing against the polished sterility usually associated with metalwork, Anna makes aluminum look organic and animate.
The result is a piece that provokes tactile curiosity and emotional response, inviting viewers to engage with texture, scale, and the uncanny sensation of an object that seems moments from breathing.
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Title: Fractured Beauty: The Elegance of Imperfection
Curated by: Veronica de Oliveira Castro
Theme: This exhibition challenges the concept of perfection by embracing dissonance, flaws, and irregularity, capturing the allure of the broken, the incomplete, and the chaotic.
Exhibition Dates: October 23 – October 30, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 23, 2025 / 6 PM – 8 PM
Private Showings & Events: Invite-only throughout the week