About Mary Anne

Baltimore City
 
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… more