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
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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."
06/09/2009
We finished up our mural at North Chatham last week. It should be placed in the school
entry sometime in the next few weeks!
06/03/2009
I designed this storage box (has original monoprint design): 16 x 16 x 16".
Pics by J&J Photography
06/02/2009
My artwork is now up at Open Eye Cafe! Go take a look!
04/23/2009
(sketch of S.F.)
03/25/2009
looks like i'm going to grad school next year! i included this project in my portfolio:
02/04/2009
Upcoming shows:
June 2009 Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro
September-October 2009 Chatham Hill Winery in Cary
October 2009 Broad Street Cafe in Durham
01/13/2009
Arts Council grants to go to 17 artists
The Herald-Sun
Jan 12, 2009
DURHAM -- The Durham Arts Council has selected 17 area artists to receive 2009 Emerging Artists Grants.
Those artists will be honored at the 25th Anniversary Emerging Artists Awards Ceremony in the spring, and the event will include a tribute to the late Ella Fountain Pratt, who collaborated with Dr. James H. Semans and the North Carolina Arts Council to found the Emerging Artists Program in 1984.
The Emerging Artists Grant Program, administered by Durham Arts Council, is designed to enable individual artists who have mastered the basic techniques of their art form to complete projects that will establish or enhance their professional careers. Grants may not exceed $1,500. Criteria for making the awards include the accomplishment and commitment of the artist, the feasibility of the proposed project and the impact the project will have on the applicant's career. A total of $23,900 was awarded this year.
Following are this year's Durham, Orange, Chatham and Person county grant recipients with specialty and purpose of grant request noted -- and Web sites, where applicable:
* Beverly Botsford, music -- to purchase multitrack recording equipment for composing and arranging for creating work samples and recording CDs -- www.beverlybotsford.com.
* Jessye McDowell, film/video -- to work with local performers to create five tableaux vivants based on the instructions of an 1860 text, record them on HD video, and create images for projection.
* Gillian Parke, craft -- to build a kiln shed for a gas kiln -- www.gillianparke.com.
* Gary Pohl, sculpture -- to reinvent the "high striker" machine, more elegant and complex than any other. Rather than measuring strength, this sculpture will "Test Your Socio-Economic Worth."
* Mikel Robinson, photography -- to create a hand-bound limited edition book of his landscape photographs titled "Under These Stones: Vanishing Reflections of Rural North Carolina" -- www.mrobinsonstudio.com.
* Sydney Scherr, craft -- to purchase computer software and hardware and art books to use during a two-year appointment at Raffles International College in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- www.sydneyscherr.com
* Carolyn Shull, music -- to release a CD of a concert for which she received a grant from the Chicago Downtown Sound Gallery series.
* Leah Sobsey, mixed media -- to work with Lynn Bregman Blass to create a public art installation and a series of community art workshops for the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public Art Commission -- www.leahsobsey.com.
* Lynn Bregman Blass, mixed media -- to work with Leah Sobsey to create a public art installation and a series of community art workshops for the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public Art Commission -- www.lynnbregmanblass.com.
* Grey Brown, literature -- to work with a graphic artist to create a Web site to promote her forthcoming collections of poetry and to further her career as a poet.
* Ellen Giamportone, photography -- to produce a portfolio of limited edition large format photographs created at night, distinguished by enhanced lighting and ambiance -- www.ellengiamportone.com.
* Annemarie Gugelmann, painting/drawing -- to paint, in oil, five large-scale canvases of cityscape works that reflect the life and development of downtown Durham -- www.annemariegugelmann.com.
* Daniel Harris, painting/drawing -- to attend the 2009 Penn Relays in Philadelphia to sell his work illustrating track and field events -- www.dandraws.com.
* Victoria Ralston, installation -- to create a theater piece "Hungry Ghost," which is a shadow and marionette puppet performance based on the Asian belief that haunting, unearthly beings roam among unwitting humans, both tricking and confusing.
* Reuven Sadeh, installation -- to create "Cycles of Life," a functional innovative installation sculpture, which is a fully tunable, self-sustained musical instrument operated by the power of falling water -- www.creativeIronArt.net.
* Wendy Spitzer, music -- to hire an audio engineer to record the last three songs of her album, and to have the entire album professionally mastered -- www.myspace.com/felixobelix.
* Arthur Knowles, craft -- to create and market a new line of handcrafted wood items including furniture, jewelry, wall pieces, and cremation urns, using a state-of-the art bandsaw -- www.wordofmouthcarpentry.com.
12/16/2008
People are asking me where my latest work is! I'm currently commissioning 3 paintings and will put them on the website when they are complete. I'm also creating linoleum prints for Emily Moore, a wonderful poet from NYC!
12/15/2008
I will be having a show at Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro late spring to early summer 2009. It will be an entire new series of paintings and prints.
Open Eye is located at 101 South Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC 27510. The hours are listed in the top bar on their website
12/01/2008
I found out today that I was selected for the Durham Arts Council's 2009 Emerging Artist Grant program! I will receive $1400 to create 5 large-scale paintings of downtown Durham.
11/7/2008
The opening for the Town Hall exhibition will be on November 14th from 5-7 at Town Hall in Chapel Hill. The address is: 405 MLK Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; Phone: (919) 968-2743. You can also email me if you have questions about the exhibition. The building is open Mondays - Fridays 8:30AM -5PM.
For more information on the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission exhibitions for 2009, visit http://www.chapelhillarts.org/programs_exhibitions_curr.php
10/21/2008
I've been selected (after applying) for Chapel Hill Town Hall's 2008-2009 Juried Exhibition Series! 10-25 of my paintings will be exhibited from November 10 until the end of January 2009 at Chapel Hill Town Hall on MLK Jr. Blvd. along with works by Amy Gelber and Bennett Strahan.
10/05/2008
I found out today that my monoprint, Bristol Street received the 1st place prize for the Visual Art Exchange Exhibition Bird's Eye View ! The show will be up for the month of October.
Also, two of my prints will be on display at 311 Martin Street in downtown Raleigh during the month of October.