Anne McInnis
anne@annemcinnis.com

Bio:

Anne McInnis (b. 1959, Atlanta, GA) is a visual artist, designer, and social scientist. Trained as a painter, she dropped out of art school and moved to Manhattan in 1981. Her art practice was sidetracked by a design career in the fashion, soft furnishings, and textile industry. Time, age, and (mis)perceived (ir)relevance eventually drove her to re-enter academia. She completed her BA in Fine and Studio Arts from Empire State University, New York, NY in 2017 and received her Ph.D. in textile sciences at University of Georgia, Athens, GA in 2023. During the last two years of grad school, she was awarded fellowship at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. This experience regenerated her artist mind and culminated in a solo exhibition which served as a visual complement to her dissertation and a springboard for her (re)emerging artistic practice. Now a full time artist with a dedicated studio practice, she lives and works in Winder, Georgia (and spends as much time as possible in New York).

Artist Statement:

My visual art practice explores perception, communication, and alterity, employing materials and mediums as metaphors to tell stories of social and personal identities. My decades-long experience living in Manhattan and working as a design professional has greatly influenced how I use and see color, line, shape, composition, and texture. Screen printing is my brush. I love the repetitive, meditative motions with the process. I use wool felt, silk organza, linen canvas, paper, and other mixed materials for my multi-layered assemblages to illustrate connection and multiplicity. Applying both opposing and incongruent materials, hard/soft, diaphanous/opaque, I use space to obscure and convey the social distance between our societal beliefs and the cycles of identities that we become, cling to, abandon, and constantly reinvent.