Monday Jul 18, 2016
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
Hutchinson Center for the Arts FREE and OPEN to the public
Lisa Bergh
Anne Rynearson is a fiscal year 2016 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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My paintings mingle representation and abstraction, placing significance on an intimate experience of the rural landscape. Rather than depicting romanticized vistas, my compositions are fractured, multi-layered amalgamations that feature both natural and manmade constructs of this particular environment combined with personal and local historical/cultural narratives. I have also begun to explore a subtext in this work relating to the relationship between the natural environment and its use/misuse through settlement, farming and social-economic changes reflective in global issues of environmental change, inherited wealth, and inequality. The formation of the work begins with photographs that I have taken of the fields, river and woods and then manipulate those images through photoshop, projection and the process of painting. I also refer to plats, satellite maps and archival material about the area to inform my concepts and amplify visual patterns in the imagery. The process of painting becomes most important to the resolution of the pieces, absorbing the collected information, drawn forms, and layers of colors and patterns into an independent, invented image.
