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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 - JONATHAN FERRARA 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, New York, NY]

 

ANN MARIE AURICCHIO is a painter and installation artist living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana. After receiving her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art where she double majored in painting and sculpture, Auricchio merged her disciplines as a scenic artist and designer for film, theater and television. During her 25-year tenure in the entertainment industry, she worked on projects for award-winning classics such as Requiem for a Dream, Broadway’s Lion King, and mega-films like John Wick. In 2019 Auricchio honored her call to shift her creative energy back into her own work, lowered the curtain on her life in production, and embraced her studio practice full time.

 

She has exhibited works nationally in commercial galleries as well as with alternative and institutional spaces such as White Columns NY, the Alexandria Museum LA, and the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans. Auricchio has completed residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center (2021-2022) and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (2023). 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 - JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY

Artist Statement

My work leans into the tension between the strength of the natural world and the fragility of the self. I am always searching for a balance between chaos and serenity. 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. 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. Within my installations, shards of wood and discarded bits of plastic and wire bathe in the flickering light of digital projections. An eminent sense of overwhelm and gravity is conveyed through the size of the paintings in relation to the body, and the immersive scale of the built environments. The resulting abstract spaces express a tumultuous environment striving towards understanding. 

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EDUCATION

1994   BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

 

SOLO + TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024   (Forthcoming) Ann Marie Auricchio New works, Jonathan Ferrara 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

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