Tull received her MFA in Interior Architecture from The George Washington University and her BA in Visual Art Practice from the University of San Francisco. She is a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional with a Certificate in Permaculture Design. Her work has been exhibited at the Mangalam Center for Creative Inquiry in Berkeley, California; the Jules Maidoff Palazzo for the Visual Arts in Florence, Italy; and Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution located in Solomons, Maryland. Notable collectors of her work have included Amazon Studios, Rivian Automotive, and the Koenig Private Foundation. Her work has been supported by several grants and residency fellowships including the ArtFarm Collective in Galway, Ireland, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. She was recently named one of ‘20 Artists to Collect in 2020’ by London-based DESTIG Magazine.
Annie Tull
Next Level
Site-specific rope installation
"This was my debut site-specific rope installation for Enlisted Design Studio. In the street-level lobby, vintage vitrines display bundles of brightly colored cord that shoot upward to form a cathedral ceiling before emerging in the second-floor open office, where they twist and turn under concrete beams and above rows of desks, connecting the various work areas as a physical metaphor for the team’s collaborative design process.
I consider myself first and foremost a painter, though my conception of this role and the media associated with it is ever-evolving. Recently, this has meant developing a method of painting in space using cotton rope to articulate brushstrokes across a room.
Through this exercise of deconstructing my painting process, I have come to realize that canvas is simply an interlaced pattern of individual strands of fiber, and paint is a vehicle for fixing pigment in place. Understanding this, I become free to “color outside the lines,” to circumvent expectations, and to introduce a third dimension."
– Annie Tull
About the artist
Annie Tull
Tull received her MFA in Interior Architecture from The George Washington University and her BA in Visual Art Practice from the University of San Francisco. She is a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional with a Certificate in Permaculture Design. Her work has been exhibited at the Mangalam Center for Creative Inquiry in Berkeley, California; the Jules Maidoff Palazzo for the Visual Arts in Florence, Italy; and Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution located in Solomons, Maryland. Notable collectors of her work have included Amazon Studios, Rivian Automotive, and the Koenig Private Foundation. Her work has been supported by several grants and residency fellowships including the ArtFarm Collective in Galway, Ireland, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. She was recently named one of ‘20 Artists to Collect in 2020’ by London-based DESTIG Magazine.
