My artwork is a series of experiments
My artwork is layered
My artwork is full of color
My artwork glides across disciplines
My artwork is driven by wordplay
My artwork is this poem
My artwork is layered
My artwork is full of color
My artwork glides across disciplines
My artwork is driven by wordplay
My artwork is this poem
I am a contemporary British-American interdisciplinary visual artist and arts educator. My work investigates how material culture might provide a lens into U.S. policies and environmental movements. I make experimental projects using a variety of forms — social practice installations, paintings, videos, and photographic experiences.
I build my paintings slowly over many months or years. Even small works are repeatedly built-up, sanded, and layered until their fragile existence feels complete. My current work consists of large colorful textured and layered paintings built on bark paper, canvas, heavy paper and wood panel, with collaged elements, hand-cut shapes, woven materials, photographs and drawings peeking through. I create works with color and layers, made from paint, and found collaged materials, built up in layers with texture. Line, color, shape, and material build upon one another, and shapes repeat. I explore the relationship between pattern and layering, I am continuously concealing and revealing organic moments. My works are drawn from the language of abstraction, color theory, and the abstract expressionist movement to create works that are an unrestrained layering of patterns on patterns. I am interested in paint as a material forever and the magical intersection of abstractness. Experimenting with mark-making and finding new ways in which aesthetics and the natural environment are fundamentally interwoven.
Bio
Annemarie Waugh is a contemporary British American visual artist and arts educator working in painting, photography, and installation. Her practice encompasses studio-based work, and public projects that involve community participation.
She received her MFA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University and BA (Hons) from Central Saint Martins. Based on the Northshore of Long Island, she has exhibited her work at venues including MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Patchogue, Christie’s London, Farmingdale State College, The Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, You + Me, Artist Films, Berlin, The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY, Gallery North, Setauket, NY, Serendip Gallery, Kobe Japan, Orchard Street Gallery, NYC, Aferro Gallery, NJ, and Chase Contemporary, Bridgehampton among others.
Sponsorships include the Stephanie Dinkins Kusama Scholarship, The Office of Inclusion & Diversity, Stony Brook University, and The Ashley Schiff Scholarship. Special projects include The New York Times, Raygun Magazine, The Boston Globe, Doctors Without Borders, Paul Smith, London, Freuds, London, and AIGA NYC chapter among others. Waugh teaches visual art at Suffolk County Community College and the Memory program at the Art League.
Her artworks can be found in many public and corporate collections including The Long Island Museum, VH1, Man Made Music, and Doyle Partners.
Email:
amg253@gmail.com
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amg253@gmail.com
Broken, 2021