WEEKDAYS 7AM-3PM WEEKENDS 8AM-4PM
On view March 8th - June 7th, 2023
Reception May 12th 5-7pm

Artist Statement:
I make energy portraits and believe that people can be viewed as patterns of energy, that our actions can be displayed as auras, and that trees are gateways to other worlds. To resist objectification, I have abandoned traditional modes of seeing and encourage my viewers to do so, too. I paint moments – both personal and historical – that are transformative and ecstatic. My subjects are powerful individuals such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Isadora Duncan, historical figures who have pushed the boundaries of our thinking, writing, and movement, figures with radiant energy who move us forward, creating new visions for a changed world. I build bodies. I make topographic forms from layers of paper that are cut, stacked, and glued together. Washes of paint, mica-enriched dark spatters, repeated circles emanating from trees and water—this is how I describe my experience of the natural world. Matte gouache brushstrokes, repeated dots, meditative glue and cut, glowing pastel waves—these are my tools for change.

Bio:
Anna Fidler (b. 1973, Traverse City, Michigan) lives in Corvallis, Oregon where she is a Senior Instructor of Art at Oregon State University. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, in and a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Portland State University. Fidler has had solo exhibitions at The Boise Art Museum, and The Portland Art Museum, and has been widely exhibited at such venues as The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art, The University of Southern California, The Tacoma Art Museum and The Sun Valley Museum of Art. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, The Washington Post, The Oregonian and The San Francisco Chronicle. Grants and awards include an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, and residencies at The Iris Project + Yucca Valley Material Lab and The Sun Valley Museum of Art. Her work is held in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, The Boise Art Museum, The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Portland Portable Works Collection and Seattle Portable Works Collection. Fidler is represented by Johansson Projects in Oakland.

@annafidlerart
www.annafidler.com