Anne Vieux (pronounced view) studied painting at KCAI and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She currently resides in New York. She works a lot with painting. Its very gestural. She experiments with video projection and different types of technology. Bringing virtual space into material space. A lot of her process works with photographing and scanning reflective papers. Its almost like she enjoys tricking yours eyes as to what you’re looking at because she uses many different processes in her work. She’ll scan reflective papers so they’ll read as painterly and then paint on them giving them depth, but they’re still flat? Its amazing! She reintroduces the hand into a lot of her images by adding paint, and it becomes very gestural. She plays with “gesture, scale, pattern, zoning out, and making the invisible- visible.” and that is a lot of what i am interested in exploring right now in my work, so Anne is very relevant to me at the moment. Her work is just absolutely stunning visually, and one thing i think she is doing really well is putting meaning and intentionality behind the abstractions that she's making. Which is something that i think contemporary artists (and specifically photographers) seem to be struggling with. Anyway you guys should really check out her work it's magnificent.
(She also makes really magnificent books. There's some in the special collections at the library, i suggest everyone check those out. When i saw those books i did not want to leave them.)
I really like these, they remind me of space photographs and old tv sets and kind of like an exhibition of things that usually go unseen. The different scale and perspectives of the same image really drive home how different something comes across depending on presentation, material, and interaction. Very visually stunning.
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