Anne Muntges
Anne Muntges, Glowing Desert Artifact-Barrel Cactus, 2020. Acrylic paint marker, gesso, paint, foam, plastic, ceramic pot, 8 x 8 x 14h inches. ©Anne Muntges, courtesy of Fou Gallery
b. 1982, Denver, Colorado
Drawing is the key to understanding the world Muntges lives in. Nothing she sees becomes real until it has been explored by the line of her pen; everything she encounters becomes encased in her handmade marks. Through her practice, she recreates portions of the environments she inhabits by collecting the pieces of her daily encounters. Each piece becomes a drawing and the thousands of pieces she collects compose over time into larger spaces. Her obsessive process blends between 2D and 3D worlds. Each object used is primed white to create a new blank palette for black drawn lines composed of acrylic paint. The final works create an interactive black and white world that functions as a living and breathing drawing.
Graduated from Kansas City Art Institute (B.F.A.) in Printmaking in 2005 and the University at Buffalo (M.F.A.) in Printmaking in 2008. Based in Brooklyn, she works with a wide range of media, including highly detailed drawings, prints, and installation. She has been exhibited at the Children’s Museum of Arts, New York (2017), the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago (2010), the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York (2018), and many other spaces nationally. Most recently her work has been growing in the studio where she is a resident with the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey (2020).
Exhibitions
Anne Muntges: The Glowing Desert
Jan. 23–Mar.21, 2021
Press
Video
A Studio Tour with Anne Muntges
March 2021