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Untitled (Waters #14), 1991, oil on canvas, 46” x 44” 1/2
Anne Appleby (born 1954) is an American color field/landscape painter. Her works, always bearing titles from the natural world---"Sweet Pine", "Summer Aspen", "Gem"---are simple arrangements of colored canvas panels. Each panel is, at a glance, monochromatic, but closer inspection reveals deep and luminous gradations of hue.
As Kenneth Baker wrote in 2004, “using no forms except monochrome panels, Appleby must struggle often with the potential problem of repetition. But [she] achieves a freshness and distinctness that persuade a viewer that she means each one. It is as if she has learned to translate energy of intent directly into radiance of color.”
Although Appleby’s paintings are composed of abstract panels each essentially a single color, she thinks of them as landscapes. She carefully observes particular plants or particular seasons and uses their colors as they grow and change in works that are particular to them. “As I work, I develop an inner dialogue about the meaning of what I’m doing,” she says. “But I can’t paint that. I can’t even speak it. It’s denser than my activity.”
Anne Appleby currently splits her time between San Francisco and her home on the edge of a national forest in Jefferson City, Montana. She has participated in group exhibitions in institutions such as the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington, the American Academy in Rome, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where in 1996 she was awarded the SFMoMA SECA Art Award. She was also the 1999 recipient of the Biennial Award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in New York.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“In various ways, I have been making paintings that use light and color for the past two decades. Color cannot be perceived without light.
My interest as a painter is in the fragile and ever changing phenomena of the temporal world in which we live. There is a subtle and rich beauty in our lives when we honor this seemingly obvious truth. Plants reflect this in their annual cycles through the seasons that come about through exposure to light.
I paint plant cycles because they reflect most other life cycles. To recognize beauty requires a state of consciousness that enables us to step outside ourselves for a moment into collective openness and grace. Often the richness of the world precludes that experience. We live in a fast paced and hectic society; we are often in cars and constantly looking at electronic media.
Occasionally we may come upon a flower or a cloud or another human being and, seeing the beauty, enter into that openness. Beauty has a fleeting quality, a palpable fragility.
Day always gives way to night, and the night cannot contain the color of the flower that will fade and then become a seed. Conversely, the seed cannot flourish without the light. These are the experiences that engage me as a painter.”
- Anne
BORN 1954 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
EDUCATION
1971 Philadelphia College of Art, PA
1977 B.F.A. in Painting, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
1989 M.F.A. in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, California
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1999 Biennial Award, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
1996 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Western States Arts Federation, WESTAF Grant
1991 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1989 David S. McMillan Award, San Francisco Art Institute, California
1985 Helena Film Society’s Grant to Artists, Helena, Montana
1972 Scholastic Scholarship, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Danese, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Ulrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Witchita, Kansas
2010 The Mayor Gallery, London, England
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
2009 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Schmidt Contemporary, St. Louis, MO
2008 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Germany
2007 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy
2006 Galerie Susanne Albrecht, Munich, Germany
2005 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2004 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2003 Verona: Etchings and Recent Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2002 Imaging Cosmologies, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Imaging Cosmologies, Jacob Lawrence Gallery,
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2001 Sassuolo Ducal Palace, Camera di Fetonte, Sassulo, Italy
Anne Appleby and Wes Mills, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
2000 Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Verona Suite, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Anne Appleby and Wes Mills, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1999 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
1998 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1997 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
1996 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
1995 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1993 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1991 Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 The Blue List, installation, Point Reyes Station, California
The Dancing Ground, installation, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Blue List, installation, Point Reyes Station, California
The Dancing Ground, installation, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, California
1989 M.F.A. Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1985 Con-temporary Gallery, Helena, Montana
1981 Governor’s Executive Mansion, Helena, Montana
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Denver Museum of Art, Denver CO
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA
The Capitol Group, Los Angeles, CA
General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis, MI
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Hewlett-Packard Corporation., Palo Alto, CA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
SAFECO Corporation, Seattle WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
Walker Richer & Quinn, Seattle, WA
Yellowstone Museum of Art, Billings, MT
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
The Panza Collection, Lugano Switzerland
MART Museo d’ARTE Moderna e Contemporea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin,Germany
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
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