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Why Such Tiny paintings?

Why Such Tiny paintings?

Painting tiny allows me to complete a painting within 2 hour sitting

Painting tiny allows me to mostly complete a painting within 2 hour sitting.

Why Such Tiny paintings?

Why Such Tiny paintings?

Why Such Tiny paintings?

It limits the excessive marks I’m allowed to consider, which is a healthy editing process.

Why Such Tiny paintings?

The process is far more intimate - I cradle it in one hand, as an easel wont suffice. 

About the Artist

Anne was born and raised in Maine and came to Northern California at age 5, where she promptly became a proud California resident for life. She received her BA in Art History at UCLA and a minor in Anthropology. She returned to the Bay Area, and began utilizing evening studio art and design classes at College of Marin and California College of the Arts, and practiced photography, poetry and sketching for 8 years, eventually turning her focus to graphic design and fine arts.


In 2009, Anne returned to school, to Santa Rosa Junior College to receive an Associates Degree in their Graphic Design program. And as she began to grow her graphic design career, she began studying fine art at College of Marin in 2014.  She continually exhibits throughout the Bay Area, throughout the year. She now resides in Northern Marin, where she enjoys hiking, camping, snuggling her cat, and wine tasting!


Artist's Statement

Art is the delicious evidence that I’m unabashedly self-indulgent. I embrace the hell out of art, as it is the air I breathe to stay alive. Not only does my own art serve only me in what feels like a primitive, innate way - I cannot devour enough from our deeply enriched community. I’ve become more inspired and affected by outside sources, such as classes, fellow artists, the natural world and the all-knowing-internets. While I celebrate sharing the common and passionate thread between artists, I also possessively maintain my unique characteristics: my patchwork education and tangled sense of humor. I strongly believe that art is a basic necessity for human survival and without it, our brains, civilization and existence would lose a quality of depth, richness and meaning. 

 

My connection with nature is a common thread that inspires most projects. While our species maintains an evidently abusive relationship with nature, I look for the curious relationships that natural ecosystems build with, and around, our synthetic objects. While my playful humor is sometimes the lens for most projects, it alternately becomes the focus in other pieces. It seems that playfulness and humor are abandoned in the ‘lost & found’ box once many assume they’re no longer admirable traits of mature professionals. But I believe these two characteristics are completely necessary to help everyone live a full and happy life. And you’ll see just that belief in action, displayed in my personality and painting style. Lastly, in a time of great division, most folks will be able to agree at least on this: most of my work is tiny! Working small usually keeps up with the pace of my over-caffeinated wheel of inspiration. 

Exhibitions

June 2021              Falkirk Summer Open Juried Show 

May 2021               O'Hanlon Art Center, Blue Exhibit, virtual

May 2021               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show, virtual

Dec 2020               Artworks Downtown, How Are You? Exhibit

Aug 2020               Virtual in-home Solo Exhibit, Food & Fun

May 2020               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show, virtual

Jan 2020               Marin Center Auditorium Gallery, Where We Call Home

Dec 2019               Artworks Downtown, Small Works Exhibit

Oct 2019                San Geronimo Exhibit - Where We Call Home

Sept 2019              Marin Society of Artists, Art Class Group Exhibit

May 2019               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show

Aug 2018               Sebastopol Art Center, Green Group Exhibit

June 2018             Art Works Downtown, After Nature Group Exhibit

May 2018               Marin Society of Artists, Fresh Group Exhibit

May 2018               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show

Aug 2017                Falkirk Fall Juried exhibit 

May 2017               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

May 2017               College of Marin, Juried Student Group exhibit 

May 2016               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

May 2014               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

May 2013               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

July 2012               San Geronimo Cultural Center, Group Photo exhibit

May 2012               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

April 2012              Marin MOCA, Novato Art Center, solo exhibit 

Feb 2012                High Sierra Photography Family Exhibit, Fairfax Library 

Aug 2011                Paths, Multi-media, San Geronimo Cultural Center Solo Exhibit 

May 2011               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

May 2010               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

Mar - Aug 2010    Landscape photography, Steve Kinsey Office Exhibit at Marin Center 

Jan - Feb 2009     Landscape photography, Pancho Villa Taqueria Exhibit, San Francisco 

Mar - April 2009  Landscape photography, Cafe Tazo Exhibit, San Francisco 

May 2009               San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

June 2009              Landscape Photography, Fairfax Library Solo Exhibit 

July 2009               “My Favorite Book” portraits, Fairfax Library Solo Exhibit 

May 2008                San Geronimo Cultural Center Spring Art Group Show 

June 2007              AparXibition: Photo Exhibit in SF Apartment 

May 2004               Art by Art History Students, UCLA 

May 2004               Women for Change Exhibit, UCLA 

May 2004               Festival of Art by Art Project Crew, UCLA 

May 2002               Festival of Art by Art Project Crew, UCLA 

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