Ann Vandervelde
“I have always believed that paintings are a form of language. An image elicits immediate dialogue between itself and the viewer and it is not essential (sometimes counter intuitive) to understand what the artist was thinking/feeling at the moment of creation. A painting has a life that draws upon others’ experiences and that is what makes it so powerful.” AV
Ann Vandervelde, Seattle and Lopez Island, Washington artist, creates works that reflect structure, objects, texture, and color defined by reflection and observation.
The artist’s materials are a mixture of papers, acrylics, oil pastels, and house paint on canvas. Shape takes form, images appear and disappear like the titles at the beginning, middle, and end of each work. For Vandervelde the challenge is to accept that a composition is never quite done, that it has the capacity to evolve and change and be understood separate from that initial vision.
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Ann was ahead of us in this thought process and brought us our first story.
Ann Vandervelde from Peter Cavanagh on Vimeo.
Selected Exhibitions
2011 I l M l A Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Forces of Nature, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
Lock Haven State University Art Museum, PA
Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
The Pennsylvania State University Undergraduate Center
The Pennsylvania State University Library
3 Rivers Festival, sponsored by Carnegie-Mellon Museum of Art
Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society juried exhibition
National Watercolor Society juried exhibition, Fullerton, CA
Art Alliance of Lemont, PA
Artisan Connection, State College, PA
Cleveland Clinic, OH
Women’s Center, Jacksonville, FL
Grinning Byrd Gallery, Cleveland
Artist Archives, Cleveland
I│M│A Gallery, Seattle, WA (2007-2008)
Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR (spring 2008)
Selected Collections
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Art Association
American Diabetes Association
Cleveland Institute of Music
NASA Glenn, OH
NOVEL, Munich, Germany
US Government Art in Embassies Program
Education
B.S. in Art, 1968
The University of Wisconsin, Madison
Concentration: Art, English, Art History
MEd in Curriculum and Instruction, 1996
Concentration: Language and Literacy
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate work in Media Studies 1998
New York University/University of London, England
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