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01/21/2010
Foster Street, 30 x 48", oil on canvas, 2010
01/14/2009
Over the next couple of months, I will start adding design projects to my website from the industrial design program at RISD. I'm working on one commission piece painting that will be up on the site soon, too.
12/11/2009
12/07/2009
12/03/2009
12/02/2009
11/26/2009---------------------------------------------11/20/2009
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11/01/2009---------------------------------------------10/31/2009
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10/28/2009---------------------------------------------10/26/2009
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Cannet----------------------------------------------------Ile Sainte-Marguerite
10/23/2009---------------------------------------------10/16/2009
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tree in snow----------------------------------------------
10/15/2009
3 of my paintings at Broad Street Cafe in Durham
09/18/2009
Blue Greenberg recently wrote an article about current exhibitions at the Durham Arts Council (The article title is "Sun Ra Exhibit Lacks Vibrance Without Sound") in which she spoke about my Durham paintings. It was published Sep. 10 in the Durham Herald Sun:
"The Allenton Gallery in the entrance lobby of the Arts Council Building is hosting Annemarie Gugelmann's paintings of Durham. Gugelmann's five large oils are the result of a 2009 Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council and there could be no greater proof of the worthiness of such projects than the work on the walls. The artist chose well-known downtown sites like the Durham Performing Arts Center, the top floor of Golden Belt, Dunstan Street duplexes and part of a block on Main Street to visualize.
In each, she picks an iconic segment, such as the edge of the DPAC facade that slants toward the open sky, or a view through some of the giant beams on Golden Belt's fourth floor, or the part of the Durham Bulls Athletic Park where the American Tobacco water tower hovers over the bleachers. Her juicy colors range from hues of brown for her bit of Main Street to blocks of blues, yellows, whites and brown rectangles for DPAC's glass walls.
In her gallery information, Gugelmann talks about recording a place carefully with photographs before she takes up the challenge of painting that spot. She writes, "I actually prefer bad pictures (blurry, discolored, etc.) because this gives me more room to become creative while painting." Her surfaces are shimmery, seen in the reflection of a glaring sun, or through a fine mist of rain or a blurry photograph.
Gugelmann's paintings are upbeat; they report a renaissance."
Previous Entries:
Durham Arts Council Grant (June 2009 thru August 2009)
Oct. 2008 thru June 2009 blog