In her new body of work, Marchand explores themes of space, music, energy, and poetry. Her palette of iridescent and translucent colors contrast with opaque passages and textures that engage vast boundaries of physical space and reference yearnings of the human heart.

Anne Marchand will be at Emerge Fine Art located in Cary at 200 S Academy St Ste 110 from 6-9 pm on 4/26. Please join us to celebrate this great new body of work. The exhibition will run from April 26 -  May 17, 2013.
 
For more information please visit www.emergefineart.com, www.facebook.com/emergefineart, twitter: @emergefineart, or call 919.380.4470.

Image: Permeation, 48 x 60, acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Emerge Fine Art.

Photo Credit: Gregory Staley Photography, WDC

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Emerge Fine Art

200 S Academy St

Cary, N. Carolina USA

919.380.4470

Wings of Desire. Anne Marchand. Photo courtesy Evolve Urban Arts and the artist.

Closing Reception: Friday, March 17, 2013 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Exhibition on view through March 21, 2013

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The Project space located in the Pierce School Loft, 1375 Maryland Avenue, NE, in the H Street Arts and Entertainment District, Washington, DC.

About the Artist

Anne is 6th 2011 Showcase Winner at ArtSant and a recipient of Artist Fellowship in 2009 from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She was honored as Liquitex Artist of the Month in November 2004. She was awarded a CAP/MEX EX Residency Grant in 2003 from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation & the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities to teach a mural workshop in Culiacan, Mexico. In 2002, Anne was nominated for Excellence in Artistic Discipline in the distinguished DC Mayor’s Arts Awards. She designed and won mural competitions notably in 2005 and 2001 through the DC Creates Public Art Program.

     Soft Sounds. Anne Marchand. Photo courtesy Evolve Urban Arts.

Artist Statement

The influence of poetic mysticism leads me to questions about man’s place in the universe. Through a process of layering mixed media and acrylic paint, I am re-creating an abstract language of color, shape and form. Luminous color is integral to my compositions. Using land, sky or the cosmos as a point of departure, I invent forms to convey feelings of energy and movement. Pulses, sounds, rhythms, colors and energy become the themes. I continually seek new ways to convey physical & spiritual sensations in paint. The paintings are put together in a dreamlike sequence to reinforce the reality of a metaphysical world. Forces of nature and the mysterious inner lives of human beings are themes that are constant in my work.”

The exhibit runs Thursday, January 31 through March 21, 2013. The Project space is located in the Pierce School Lofts at 1375 Maryland Avenue, NE, in the H Street Arts and Entertainment District, Washington, DC.  The artist reception is free and open to the public.

About Evolve Urban Arts
The Evolve Urban Arts Project enriches the lives of residents, neighbors in the H Street Community, and Washington DC at large by providing free exhibition space to artists based in the metropolitan area.

The Project draws inspiration from the loft conversion movement – started by artists — that transformed downtown New York City warehouses and industrial spaces into functional live/work studios. Decades later, the process of gentrification has promoted the loft lifestyle across America, but few reflect upon or celebrate the artistic roots of this movement. The Pierce School Lofts, home to Evolve Urban Arts Project, was itself an abandoned elementary school before being adaptively re-used as rental loft apartments. Evolve has chosen to honor the buildings’ history and the artistic heritage of the greater loft movement by creating the Urban Arts Project and giving artists center stage in the building’s public spaces.

The Project sponsors approximately five exhibitions a year in a variety of formats and mediums and is entirely philanthropic, taking no payment for use of the space. Artists may make their work available for purchase, or they simply may choose to share their work with the community. By acting as an incubator for artistic talent, the Project aims to make Washington, DC a more dynamic, creative and fascinating place to live.

Evolve Urban Arts Project is located in the Pierce School Lofts at 1375 Maryland, Avenue NE, in the H Street Arts and Entertainment District of Washington, DC. USA

To schedule an appointment after the opening reception, contact Geoff Ault, the Project’s curator, at 202.744.6439 or by email at geoff [at] evolveDC.com

Not too unlike a DJ's “digging in the crates” to pull together seemingly disparate musical styles and sound effects, many contemporary artists mine various mediums for their individual art production. This exhibition explores the creative drives and experimentation of mixed media abstract artists from DC, Maryland and Virginia who have often chosen to combine untraditional painting and assemblage materials (acetate, plant pods, metal components, pumice) with more straightforward acrylics, pastels, and oils to create their both energetic and powerful visual "mashups". As curator one of my goals is to expand the understanding of what abstraction is and can be as expressed by these eight artists.

A new exhibit of 30 abstract paintings by Marchand at the King Street Gallery of Montgomery College evokes the images of outer space and explores the connection between science and mysticism. Titled after a line from a hymn, the exhibit “Of Shining Worlds” parallels the questions about what makes the universe function and the existence of beautiful forms out in space.

Read more HERE

by Cody Calamaio, Staff Writer, Gazette.net

Several paintings were selected for two editions of Studio Visit Magazine. Stay tuned for more publications this December. Here is a list of recent publications/media that feature images and information about the body of work that I am doing. Please direct inquires about pricing and purchasing the work to me or to Porter Contemporary. You can obtain a copy of the publications listed below, online at their respective websites.

• Studio Visit Magazine, (MA),  Juror: Ian Berry, Skidmore College, Open Studios Press, Boston, Vol. 16, Dec. 2011.

• American Art Collector, (CA),  Jurors; Howard Eige, Jan Christensen Heller. Alcove Books, Berkeley, Nov. 2011. 

• Maryland Gazette, (MD), Paintings by Anne Marchand explore the turning of the universe,  Cody Calamaio. Sept. 21, 2011.

• Professional Artist Magazine, (FL), Featured Photo and Mention in Best Business Practice Article, Discipline,  Jodi Walsh. Oct. 2011.
  

• 100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic, (PA),  E. Ashley Rooney. Schiffer Publishing, Lancaster, 2011.

• Studio Visit Magazine (MA),  Juror: Beth Venn, Curator,  Newark Museum, The Open Studios Press, Boston, Vol. 14, p. 124, 2011.

• The Washington Post, (DC), Anne Marchand Edgy Exhibition, Featured Photo in Washington Post Express, 5.13.11

• 2011 - 2012 Artist Directory, (DC), Washington Project For The Arts, Washington, DC, 2011.

• Borderstan, (DC), Anne Marchand Embraces the Element of Surprise. Interview.  Cecile Oreste. 18 Jan. 2011. 

• The Pink Line Project, (DC), Harmonious Environment in "Universe,"  Art Review,  Tara Heuser. 18 Jan. 2011.
  

• Rachel Ray Show, (NY), Featured Artwork, Improvisation, 01.25.2011.

• The Language of Towns & Cities: A Visual Dictionary, (NY),  Dhiru A. Thadani. Rizzoli Publishing, New York, 11.16.10.

Murals feed the urban soul

Beauty always seems to fall on the lowest step of the staircase of needs. You tread on it to get to other things, such as food, shelter, safety, companionship.

Copyright Anne Marchand: "Spinning Night" 36" x 48" acrylic & mixed media

Established artist Anne Marchand navigates her full time career with elegance, grace and resilience. A native of New Orleans, Anne credits her "optimistic attitude with a sense of gratitude and wonder has been key to helping go through the inevitable droughts of being a creative person. Taking the time to research and implement new strategies for staying on track helps maintain a strong foundation in my business."