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Through both abstract painting, and immersive installation spaces, I create metaphorical landscapes to confront challenging emotional experiences. Visual elements such as power lines and the deep recesses of the forest inspire the texture and movement of these self reflective spaces.

Ann Marie Auricchio - Artists - FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY

Biography

A N N   M A R I E   A U R I C C H I O  | | |  @annmarieauricchio_art

[lives & works – New Orleans, LA  :::  b. 1972, Queens, NY]

 

Ann Marie Auricchio is a New Orleans based painter and installation artist whose vibrant and energetic compositions personify fictional landscapes conveying human sentience and station through abstract gesture. While born out of the artist’s own profound and formative life experiences, the universal themes throughout her work intend to provide the viewer with relation and resonance.  Auricchio earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1994). She has attended fully funded residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center (2021/22) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2023). Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Ferrara Showman Gallery (New Orleans, LA), and Michael Warren Contemporary (Denver, CO). She has participated in many group exhibitions nationally in commercial galleries as well as with alternative and institutional spaces such as White Columns NY, the Painting Center NY, the Alexandria Museum LA, and the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans.  Auricchio held a 25-year tenure in the entertainment industry as a scenic artist and designer for film, theater, and television until 2015. She worked on projects for award winning classics such as Requiem for a Dream, Broadway’s Lion King, and mega-films like John Wick. The experiences and skillset acquired through those years have helped inform her installation work, and sense of scale found throughout all her mediums.  Included in many private collections, Auricchio’s work also belongs to several corporate collections, including: Azamara Cruise Lines and the Scott Companies.

Ann Marie Auricchio - Artists - FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY

Artist Statement

My work leans into the tension between the strength of the natural world and the fragility of the self. I turn to nature, the landscape, and the processes of the natural world to act as metaphor for the human condition and journey.  

 

The vibrant and energetic compositions of my paintings personify fictional landscapes - moments of imaginary geological and meteorological happenings – conveying human sentience and station through abstract gesture. A frenetic visual rhythm threads throughout all my work. In my paintings and works on paper, repetitive forceful brush strokes and linear tethers of acrylic paint overlay thin washes of saturated color. An eminent sense of overwhelm and gravity is conveyed through the action of the paint on the surface, as well as through the physical size of the paintings in relation to the body.  The resulting abstract spaces express a tumultuous environment striving towards understanding - finding a balance between chaos and serenity. 

 

Within these worlds I feel safe to explore my emotions and give a visual voice to what feels like a fiery rumble that never quiets. Though originating from my own profound and formative life experiences, the universal themes throughout my work intend to provide the viewer with relation and resonance. 

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

1994   BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

 

SOLO + TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024   Ann Marie Auricchio, Burning Inside, Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2023   We Are All Heroes: Ann Marie Auricchio, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO

2022   Inner Worlds/Outer Worlds: Ann Marie Auricchio & Sherry Owens, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2022   Works on Paper: Ann Marie Auricchio, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2020   Yellin in My Ear, Pop-up @454 Julia, New Orleans, LA

2000   New Skin, The NY Body Archive, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023   An Outside Chance, IBIS Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2022   Ethereal Communication, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2022   Phantasma, curated by Elliot Stokes, Art Conscious, New Orleans, LA

2022   Resilience/A Visual Proclamation, Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA

2022   Remember Earth, curated by Erin Antonak, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

2022   Selection of Gallery Artists Spring Exhibition, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO

2022   Possible Impossible Worlds / 6th Louisiana Biennial, juried by Rebecca Hart, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

2021   Ann Marie Auricchio, Mia Kaplan, Erika Larkin-Gaudet, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2021   Selections from the Roster, South Hampton Art Fair, Octavia Gallery, The Hamptons, NY

2021   Once in a Year, juried group show, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2021   Abstraction, Landscape, and Light, EDNA Contemporary, San Luis Obispo CA

2020   33rd September Juried Exhibition, juried by Kristen Miller Zohn, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana

2020   ArtFlow 2020 Group Show, Shaw Center for the Arts Mansfield Gallery, Arts Council of Baton Rouge, LA

2019   Landscape: Real And Imagined, juried by Eileen Jeng Lynch, SITE:Brooklyn Gallery, New York, NY

2016   Spring Group Show, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2000   Foreign Bodies, White Columns, New York, NY

1999   Outer Burroughs, White Columns, New York, NY

1999   Beware the Ides of March, ABC No RIO, New York, NY

1998   WAR, Postmasters, New York, NY

 

RESIDENCIES + COMMISSIONS

2023   Karen Shea and Gabe Silverman Endowment Funded, Virginia Center of Creative Arts

2021/22   Selected Artist in Residence, The Joan Mitchell Center Residency

2023   Installation “Divine Cinnabar” for Remember Earth, curated by Erin Antonak, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

2020   Azamara Cruise Lines

2020   Hotel St Vincent New Orleans

2019   Hotel Peter and Paul New Orleans

2016   Netflix/Marvel Comics

 

PUBLICATIONS

2023   Old-school ideas about art and literature get an update, Denver post critic Ray Rinaldi

2022   We Hit the Road in Search of the Flyover States’ Most Exciting Creatives, Print magazine by Chloe Gordon

2021   The Creatives, Adore Magazine By Katy Danos and Michaela Bechler

2016   Studio Visit Magazine: Volume Thirty Three, juried selection by Michael Lash

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