ANN MARIE AURICCHIO
Burning Insidegallery premiere, new paintings
December 20, 2023 – February 9, 2024
Pull Quote
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.
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.
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.
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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
