ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anne Sanger (b. 1970, US) is an artist living in Upstate New York known for her abstract expressionist paintings. Her development as an abstract artist in the years since leaving her corporate job in the retail industry has led her to explore pastel drawing, liquid acrylic works on paper as well as larger-scale acrylic and oil paintings on any surface at hand.

Devoted to the idea of creating works of distinctive beauty, using striking color combinations and strong line, she is influenced by her background in fashion as a designer and illustrator. There is an underpinning of gesture and exuberant color that forms the foundation of each work.

My interest lies in exploring the foundational principles of color and color juxtaposition in abstract painting. This in turn informs the shapes that develop as I explore color on the canvas, often mixing paints directly on the surface. I begin with a framework of drawing - gestural lines and declarative mark-making - which evolves over the weeks spent developing a work within a series of works in different sizes and on different types of surfaces.

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