Fulton County Public Art Program
Atlanta, GA
The Fulton County Public Art Program commissions, acquires and maintains art for County facilities as well as providing cultural enrichment programming.
MessageAnita Arliss (b.1948, Bronx, NY) is an artist living and working in Atlanta, GA.
She has a BA and MA in Creative Arts from Hunter College, CUNY, NY.
After graduating, she painted sets for films and commercials in New York.
Since 2000, Arliss has used her brush to paint images on canvas, originally
born of reproduction and digital manipulation.
Arliss’s paintings were featured twice in New American Paintings (2004, 2013, South).
She has exhibited in commercial and artist-run galleries, museums and art fairs in NYC,
Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles and numerous venues throughout the US. Her recent
online exhibitions include artsy.net (Arcade Projects, Spring Forward, 2020) and
ecoartspace.org (Fall, 2020).
In 2009, Anita Arliss created the permanent installation, Propulsion (20 ft. diameter,
hand-cut smalti-glass tile) in Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Concourse B.
Her paintings can be found in public art, corporate and private collections, and published
in Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, ArtsATL, Open Studios Press and ecoartspace.
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