Artist Statement
This series marks a shift for my practice. Moving away from pure abstraction, I’ve embraced a
more figurative approach to capture the emotional texture of gatherings of family and friends. Working from old photos, I use a mix of acrylic and oil paint, pastels, oil sticks and charcoal on canvas to render moments that feel both intimate and universal. These painting crackle with energy, picking up on the movement of molecules that create us and our surroundings. I take inspiration from the intense portraits of Alice Neel and the vibrant immediacy in Jennifer Packer’s work. Illustrating the intangible, but very real sense of connection that can happen between humans when they forget themselves, even for a moment, and feel our commonalities. This is my revolution in a time of increased divisions, I offer my viewers a reimagined space, an invitation to return to presence, to connection, to the art of simply being together.

Bio
Anne Harmon is a North Dakota native now based in New York. She likes to say that growing up in the middle of nowhere led her everywhere. Starting in LA, while working on film sets, she started studying art at UCLA. LA spurred her creative pursuit to move to Europe where she focused on painting at L’Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. Here she started painting large abstracts as well as continuing her life drawing and sketchbook practice.
New York called her back and after 25 years of painting on film and tv sets and the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, she is now fully immersed in her studio practice in Nyack. She has slowed down enough to let her life catch up with her and her paintings have become more figurative, weaving narratives inspired by her travels. She continued to explore these narratives through capturing the essence of her experiences and the beauty of divers cultures. Her art has been shown in group exhibitions at Time &Space Limited in Hudson, NY, Lagstein Gallery in Nyack and currently at Perry Lawson Fine Art.