Anne Walsh’s issue was a rubber doorstop, or wedge. On the top surface of the wedge, set into the surface of the wedge, was a note from a young Anne Walsh, written in 1973, to the Tennis Star Billie Jean King. The note was a fan letter sent to Billie Jean King just after she had beat Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes Tennis Match.
Anne Walsh is a media artist and an Assistant Professor of Electronic Media in the department of Art Practice at UCB. She holds an MFA in photography from the California Institute of Arts. Her works include video, performance, audio, and print projects. With artist Chris Kubick, Walsh produced the spoken word audio series Art After Death, whose first three volumes include the compact discs “Conversations with the Countess of Castiglione,” “Yves Klein Speaks!” and “Visits with Joseph Cornell.” She has curated exhibitions for OR Gallery, Vancouver; Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Beall Center for Art and Culture at UC Irvine; the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies; New Langton Arts, San Francisco, and other venues. Walsh is a founding editor of X-Tra Journal of Art and Culture, and has contributed criticism, reviews, and interviews regularly to the magazine since 1997. Her videos, performances, and sound installations have been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the J. Paul Getty Museum; Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium; MUU gallery, Helsinki; Tredje Spooret, Stockholm; the Royal College of Art, London; Lothringer 13, Munich; Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, and numerous other galleries and festivals in Europe, Japan, and North America.
More about Anne can be found at www.annewalshjunior.org