Baker Artist Portfolios

 
I paint self-contained worlds populated with nameable an unnameable objects. In these paintings, I seek solutions to self-generated problems, working intuitively until a resonant moment emerges.  My visual vocabulary borrows from architecture, textiles and cartoons.  Thickly painted impasto, transparent glazes, immediate brushstrokes and slow build-ups of marks coexist on each canvas. Saturated colors and patterns oscillate between harmony and discord, like reams of fabric piled on a table. I play games of perception and illusion, while all the time reveling in the material and process of painting. 

Mary Anne Arntzen is a painter exploring narrative relationships between non-representational forms. Her work has been shown at the Walters Art Museum, St. Charles Projects, Resort Gallery,  and The Painting Center. She has completed residencies at the Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Awards include the Bethesda Painting Prize, Maryland State Individual Artist Grant and a 2018 Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Grant nomination.