Anne McInnis
anne@annemcinnis.com

Bio:

Anne McInnis (b. 1959, Atlanta, GA) is a visual artist, product designer, and social scientist. Trained as a painter, she dropped out of art school at the University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, GA, 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 in 2023 she received her Ph.D. in textile sciences at UGA. During the last two years of graduate 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. Most recently, she exhibited in Washington D.C. and was honorably mentioned in the Washington Post. She lives and works in Georgia.

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. Print making 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.