Forest House Under Summer Sky, 2023, Flashe on wood, 18” x 24”
ANN SCHAUMBURGER
Artist Statement
“Colors present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions.”
Josef Albers, Interaction of Color
I am always testing new color relationships. Seeing what happens at the edges when two colors meet gives me great pleasure.
I use the bare-bones structure of a house as scaffolding for my color investigations. The house form is at once iconic and open-ended. The primitive nature of the shape allows me to use it abstractly, breaking up color by working in blocks of four. I play with variation in the amount, repetition, and placement of color to see their effects. I am always solving an aesthetic problem with my color choices.
Although the house remains a constant in my work, I play with it over time. I recently learned that Henry David Thoreau’s family purchased a house only to put it on wheels and move it from one part of Concord, Massachusetts to another. So now I have put my own houses on wheels. The idea of taking a solid house, attached to the ground, and letting it roll away seems both comical and deeply suggestive of our times.
Artist Bio
Ann Schaumburger lives and works in New York City.
Past Solo Exhibitions:
New Work, 2024 New Work, 2021 New Work, 2018
One, Six, Twelve, Twenty, 2015 New Paintings, 2012 The Versailles Project, 2006 New Work, 2005
Past Group Exhibitions: 23°47', 2°27', 2°51', 2021 SYMPOIESIS, 2020 Eleven x Seventeen , 2019 NADA House, 2019
Who Cares?, 2017
Wish You Were Here, 2016
New Art In An Old House, 2016
Razzle Dazzle, 2016
If These Walls... II, 2015
Wish you were here, 2015
A.I.R. ReFreshed, 2015
Wet Paint, 2014
If These Walls..., 2014