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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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