Ann Chernow’s art is intimate. She creates private moments, engaging us in a contemporary narrative with a remembered past. Her work addresses the human condition.

Chernow's entire oeuvre includes paintings, drawings and prints. The work is related by themes, among which are: communication, gesture, glance, waiting, self absorption, loneliness, anxiety , optimisim, tenderness, alienation, fatigue, and confidence.

In l945 when her family moved to Flushing, Queens, the town boasted two major movie houses: Loews Prospect and RKO Keiths. Both were within a few blocks of Chernow’s apartment. From age 11 on, she and friends would escape into the fantasy world of film and the figment of the theater being ‘home.’

Every genre of l940s film fare – the womens’ “weepies,” Westerns, war movies, mysteries, science fiction, serials and newsreels –fascinated the young viewer and became the lifelong basis for her work.

In 1957, she participated in her first New York gallery show, at the Duncan Gallery, which began her serious attention as an artist.