Artist Statement
The rational and the intuitive are connected in my work. Personal translations of fleeting moments of reality are combined with shapes and colors of the indescribable taken from my imagination. Each individual painting is connected to feelings associated with experience, memory, and desire. I begin each composition starting with a blank canvas but through the process of their creation, forms and shapes are revealed, and if successful, form a unified whole. By weaving colors, patterns, and textures together, I feel as if I am instrumental in a healing, unifying process, not only for myself, but also for those who experience the work.
Working serially, there are several motifs that are repeated. These motifs serve as the foundation for the work and enable the painting’s “architecture” to adhere and activate the work’s surface. The coupling of grids, both painted and applied, serve as an example of this and also derive from the personal. The black- and-white linoleum 'le floor in the kitchen and dining room of my Italian grandparents’ sugar cane plantation in Louisiana created a sense of order in contrast to the chaos of the large family dinners, abundance of food, and loud conversa'ons that took place. The grid of the needlepoint canvas that is sutured into the painting, is an homage to my Emergency Room physician husband, who died too young, and an acknowledgement of the historic antecedents of women who expressed their creativity through craft needlepoint and quilts, and not with paint. As a woman of the baby boom generation, I had my own struggles to define myself as a professional ar'st. Through tragedy and loss, I was thrust into expressing strong emotions and ideas uniquely with paint, color, textures, collaged papers and the use of my handicraft, needlepoint.
The patterns and topographies created by mark making with paint are in synchronicity with the textural surfaces of the other materials. Together, they form panoply of architectural details, Mardi Gras costumes, and the rhythms of music 'ed to memories of New Orleans, and art, people and places of my travels. Wrought iron, lattcework with sweet smelling vines, and the arabesque movements in the French and Italian lace seep from my subconscious and into the work.
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Education
1995 M.F.A. Painting, University of New Orleans
1992 B.A., Painting, Loyola University, New Orleans, cum laude Certificate of Achievement in Visual Arts
1986 Art History, Tulane University, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Remnants: In Black and White, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Anne Bedrick Fine Art Gallery, Cathedral City, CA
2017 Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Matter and Texture, Beyond the Lines Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2015 Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA
2012 Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
Urban Cells, Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 Intersections, Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Deconstructing Happiness, Patricia Cameron Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2006 Temptations, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2004 Seduction, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2003 White Chocolate, AT31, Seattle, WA
2002 Big Talk,Gallery 6311, Seattle, WA
2001 100 Objects, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
100 Objects, Mary Vitold Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Installation, Womb, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Seeing Red, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Cathedral City, CA
Form and Function, JanssenARTSPACE, Palm Springs, CA
Rancho Mirage Festival for the Arts, Curator, Bill Schinsky, Executive Director, Coachella Valley Art Center, Rancho Mirage, CA
Artist Council Exhibition, Hot Times, Cool Art, Palm Desert, CA
Artists Council Exhibition, Ace, Palm Desert, CA
2021 LAAA Open Show, Los Angeles, CA
A Century of California Women Artists, Women Painters West, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs Museum Artists Council, Reflections/2020, Palm Springs, CA
2020 35th Annual All Media Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
4th Biennial Visual Impressions, Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland, WA
We Are Home, A Community Quilt Project, presented by SOLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
She Votes: Altered Book Project, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art
That Layered Look ll
Art of the Square, BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
New Year, New Vision, Stern Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
LA Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, Diversity Walks and Talks, Los Angeles, CA
2019 34th Annual All Media Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Holiday Show, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
2018 24th Annual Juried Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
That Layered Look, Tufenkian Fine Art, Glendale, CA
Apocrypha, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Trappings, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Show, 53rd National Juried Artists Exhibition, Covington, LA
Music for Your Eyes, Orange County Center for Creative Arts, Santa Ana, CA
Fellowships
2022 Kipaipai Workshop, Ojai, CA
2020 Kipaipai Workshop, Lancaster, CA
2019 UCROSS Foundation, Painting, Sheridan, Wyoming
2012 Bau Institute, Painting Otranto, Italy,
1997 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Painting, Amherst, VA
Honors
2022 ACE, Jurors Award, Artist Council at the Galen, Palm Desert
2020 35th Annual All Media Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA 2nd Place Best in Show
2019 34th Annual All Media Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, 2nd Place Best in Show
2018 24th Annual Juried Exhibition Korean Cultural Center, 24th Annual Juried Exhibition, Circumstances, Artistic Selection Award, Los Angeles, CA
City of West Hollywood, Bunker Opens Doors, Certificate of Recognition, 17th Annual Russian Arts and Cultural Festival
2017 stART Fair LA, A Contemporary Art Fair, Chosen recipient, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles
2015 Invention and Vision, Juror, San Fernando Valley Art Alliance, 2nd Place, Tarzana, CA
2016 Point of View, Women Painters West, 3rd Place
Women Painters West Exhibition, Lamperouge Gallery, Brewery Art Gallery, 2nd Place,
Arts Council of New Orleans, Percentage for Arts Program Recipient
Masur Museum of Art, Juror’s Award, Monroe, LA
1994 New Orleans National Painting Competition, Award: One-Person Exhibition
Books/Articles/Interviews
2022 VoyageLA Magazine, Rising Stars: Meet Andrée B. Carter, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Veranda Magazine, March issue, mixed media commission, Dallas, TX
She Votes, 100th Anniversary of the 19th amendment, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Los Angeles, CA
Women Painters West, 100th Anniversary, The Brand Library Exhibition, Glendale, CA
Space on Space Magazine, Issue 2
2020 Andrée B. Carter, “One Journey” by Eric Minh Swenson, Youtube
2019 Radio Interview, Esther Tyree, KRVS public radio, Lafayette, LA
2018 Beverly Press, KCCLA unveils annual juried exhibition, May 2018
Los Angeles Art Association Volume 2 Catalogue
2017 The Thrive Global, Living Your Dreams, art unites the passion of three women 2011 House Beautiful, October
2006 Where Magazine, Seattle, The Power of Color, June
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Judy Wagonfeld
Art Access, Volume 15, Molly Norris Curtis (p. 8-9)
2005 Maximalism, published for Hotel Max, Seattle
Radio Interview at UNO, Jacqueline Bishop 2003 Northwest Home and Garden, Summer
2002 Big Talk, Judy Wagonfeld
online @ www.DigitalCity.com/Seattle/entertainment/events, October
2001 Times-Picayune, New Orleans
1998 New American Paintings Magazine, Volume 16, curated by John Ravena, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Gallery Representations
Ann Connelly Fine Arts, Baton Rouge, LA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles,CA
Grand Image, Seattle, WA