Annie Waldrop sent us over her unsolicited image files on cd and her artwork papers, and although many art agents will not review these materials, I always look at whatever comes my way – more often than not, I’m surprisingly rewarded.  Such is the case with Waldrop who is a talented mixed-media/assemblage artist from Salem, Virginia and also a teacher.  She is working in themes of women’s abandonment, domesticity, fertility, women’s labor and the discarded.  She explores both positive and negative aspects of domesticity and the issue of women’s labor and its place in society as demonstrated through her need for obsessive sewing and in the repetition of various elements of her work.  Featured below are three of our favorites that all have an element of insight, originality, and depth of thought.   “Detail Scorched” (2004); “Baggage” (2005); and “Steel Wool Christening Gown” (2005).