Anne Barnes - Color Ways

Artist Statement

Using cultural cues and collected ephemera absorbed from my world, I create artworks that are process driven and that collaborate with chance. By combining a high-keyed color palette, expressive gesture, and symbolic mark-making, my multi-layered work is grounded in the informality of the unstructured painterly mark and the unadulterated visual language of graphic form. The result is the abstracted visualizations of my memories, emotions, and varied perspectives that merge to become metaphors for exploration into themes of human nature, popular culture, feminism, and motherhood. My intention is to leave a trace of the artist in all that I create and to connect with the viewer through the empathetic power of language, chroma, and vivid mark-making.

Artist Bio

Anne Barnes was born in Columbus, OH, but spent her formative years growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, and she lives and works on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Anne holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from George Washington University; an MA in Publications Design from the University of Baltimore; and an MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University, College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA (2020). Anne has worked in publishing as a book designer, as a Bookmaking Associate at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, MD, is a teaching artist, pursues her personal art practice in her studio, and is the new Gallery Director at Hill Center Galleries. Anne has shown her work in numerous locations and has her paintings and altered book sculptures in private collections nationally and internationally.

Website: www.annebarnesstudio.com

Instagram: @annebarnes_studio.com