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Anne Faught

  • 480 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA
  • 340A

About The Artist

Artist Statement

Doing art is the way I have always integrated experiences; bringing the outside to the inside, the inside to the outside, the invisible to the visible.  It is a powerful vehicle for me and I love working on that ambiguous edge.  My drawings lean towards the representational, my paintings pushing into more numinous realms, the sculptural pieces spanning both. I am interested in mark-making and the long history of humans developing symbols and notations to communicate and create narratives. Our essential energy, our own gestures and mark-making, is carried by our pencils and our brushes to our paintings as well as to our language, our thinking, our movement and expression. In my work I play between the representational and the abstracted, the intentional and explorative.  I am often  groping in the dark but love the process; sometimes a struggle, sometimes a dance.  I am also exploring themes of routes and lines;  how we are connected through time and space by visible and invisible strands of communication lines, blood lines, shipping lines, boundaries, mark-making, harmonies. . .  the variety of trails that make up the constellations of our lives. The practice of art making is a constant process of renewal and discovery and the surprises on the canvas can sustain us as artists.

In the words of artist Cy Twombly: [art-making] is …”not described, it’s happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.”

 

Biography

I feel fortunate to have found my love of art making very early in my life. My very first jobs were doing window displays and working as an art therapist for Community Mental Health. I have taught art and art history most of my career and have always felt very lucky to be able to live a creative life.  My work is in private and corporate collections in the Bay Area and the Midwest.

Art Medium(s)

Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Watercolor, Pastel, Drawing, Photography, Prints and Printmaking, Mixed Media, Ceramics, Sculpture, Fiber

Studio Information

Building Name

ICB, Industrial Center Building

Studio Or Unit Number

340A

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Contact Information

Artist Full Name
Contact Email Address
Phone

415-226-8223

Exhibitions & Press

Group Exhibitions

San Geronimo Valley Spring Art Show (decades)

Marin County Civic Center exhibits: “Where We Call Home”, “Thread Cloth Paper”,  “Faultline”,  “Women In Abstraction”

O’Hanlon Art Center:  Wabi Sabi

Sausalito Art Center:  “Opening Invitational”,  “Sausalito Past and Present”

ICB Open Studios  

Marin Open Studios

 

 

Publications

West Marin Review :  Volumes 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10

Awards

Teaching Studio Art & Art History Grants and Awards:

California Arts Council

Marin Arts Council

BP/International

Education

Description

San Francisco Art Institute:  BFA

University of San Francisco at Lone Mountain:  MA

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