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Annie Bielski
SUNSETS ARE POTENTIALLY FABULOUS
Booth A58
VIP and Press Preview:
Tuesday, 3 Dec 10am - 7pm
Opening Hours:
Wed, 4 Dec 11am - 7pm
Thurs, 5 Dec 11am - 7pm
Fri, 6 Dec 11am - 7pm
Sat, 7 Dec 11am - 7pm
Sun, 8 Dec 11am - 5pm
Some layers on the surface are available for viewing, but others are covered up entirely. Some of the greatest moments possible—you wouldn’t believe it—are underneath a tarry black that signifies “starting over.” A particular blue-green, heavily marked down on sale, has good coverage and changes everything. Sometimes what you see in the end has three to five uniquely realized paintings beneath. I wish I could get those layers back and see them all in a room together. -Annie Bielski
We are thrilled to present Sunsets Are Potentially Fabulous, a solo booth with Annie Bielski including a suite of new paintings, a flower shaped functional bench, and the debut of her latest zine edition.
Bielski’s bold and exuberant paintings spring from life and revel in abstraction. Her approach is one of staining, drawing, building, and leaving evidence of what came before. Along with scale, the physicality of Bielski’s process is evident in her use of expansive washes of color and swooping mark-making on raw canvas. She responds to her own intuitive gestures and moves through with curiosity, inviting the assertion of one form to interact with the next. As Bielski shapes a composition, she often begins on the floor and then hangs the canvas to face her, turning the stretcher by degrees until she lands at finished. For her, completion is not a conclusion, but rather an offering of openness, a wink at the mutability of it all.
ANNIE BIELSKI (b. 1990 in Toledo, OH) received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Bielski is an artist, performer, and writer. Exhibitions include Agita, Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY); Strong Winds May Exist, SEPTEMBER (Hudson, NY); Loveland, SEPTEMBER (NADA, New York, NY); Bluets, Burning in Water (New York, NY); The Hardest Part is Just Gettin’ Here, Paris London Hong Kong (Chicago, IL); only to find, High Tide (Philadelphia, PA); a rose is a rose is a cave, Motel (Brooklyn, NY); Alongside:: D,A,K,A, Lodos, (Mexico City, Mexico); The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's TBA Festival (Portland, OR); Strutting, Fretting, UB Art Galleries at The University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY); among others. Bielski has performed at SEPTEMBER, The Museum of Modern Art, Coustof Waxman, Allen & Eldridge, Rachel Uffner Gallery, CANADA, and elsewhere. She was the Artist in Residence at Basilica Back Gallery in 2018, and participated in 1-844-NOT-Z00M ARCHIVES, Vol. 2, at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020. She has collaborated with the University at Buffalo and FORT MAKERS to create limited edition objects and prints, and has released three zines independently. Bielski has collaborated with musician Jenny Hval, performed across the US and Europe, and contributed album art and music video visuals to Hval’s 2022 album, Classic Objects. She has interviewed numerous artists for The Creative Independent, and is a contributor to the monograph Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Comic Relief as well as How to Fail Successfully, and Stay Inspired: Finding Motivation for Your Creative Work by Brandon Stosuy. Bielski’s work, performances, and writing have been covered by Art News, Hyperallergic, MTV, The New York Times, among others. Bielski has taught at The University of New Mexico and SUNY Buffalo, and currently lives and works in upstate New York.
SUNSETS ARE POTENTIALLY FABULOUS
Booth A58
VIP and Press Preview:
Tuesday, 3 Dec 10am - 7pm
Opening Hours:
Wed, 4 Dec 11am - 7pm
Thurs, 5 Dec 11am - 7pm
Fri, 6 Dec 11am - 7pm
Sat, 7 Dec 11am - 7pm
Sun, 8 Dec 11am - 5pm
Some layers on the surface are available for viewing, but others are covered up entirely. Some of the greatest moments possible—you wouldn’t believe it—are underneath a tarry black that signifies “starting over.” A particular blue-green, heavily marked down on sale, has good coverage and changes everything. Sometimes what you see in the end has three to five uniquely realized paintings beneath. I wish I could get those layers back and see them all in a room together. -Annie Bielski
We are thrilled to present Sunsets Are Potentially Fabulous, a solo booth with Annie Bielski including a suite of new paintings, a flower shaped functional bench, and the debut of her latest zine edition.
Bielski’s bold and exuberant paintings spring from life and revel in abstraction. Her approach is one of staining, drawing, building, and leaving evidence of what came before. Along with scale, the physicality of Bielski’s process is evident in her use of expansive washes of color and swooping mark-making on raw canvas. She responds to her own intuitive gestures and moves through with curiosity, inviting the assertion of one form to interact with the next. As Bielski shapes a composition, she often begins on the floor and then hangs the canvas to face her, turning the stretcher by degrees until she lands at finished. For her, completion is not a conclusion, but rather an offering of openness, a wink at the mutability of it all.
ANNIE BIELSKI (b. 1990 in Toledo, OH) received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Bielski is an artist, performer, and writer. Exhibitions include Agita, Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY); Strong Winds May Exist, SEPTEMBER (Hudson, NY); Loveland, SEPTEMBER (NADA, New York, NY); Bluets, Burning in Water (New York, NY); The Hardest Part is Just Gettin’ Here, Paris London Hong Kong (Chicago, IL); only to find, High Tide (Philadelphia, PA); a rose is a rose is a cave, Motel (Brooklyn, NY); Alongside:: D,A,K,A, Lodos, (Mexico City, Mexico); The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's TBA Festival (Portland, OR); Strutting, Fretting, UB Art Galleries at The University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY); among others. Bielski has performed at SEPTEMBER, The Museum of Modern Art, Coustof Waxman, Allen & Eldridge, Rachel Uffner Gallery, CANADA, and elsewhere. She was the Artist in Residence at Basilica Back Gallery in 2018, and participated in 1-844-NOT-Z00M ARCHIVES, Vol. 2, at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020. She has collaborated with the University at Buffalo and FORT MAKERS to create limited edition objects and prints, and has released three zines independently. Bielski has collaborated with musician Jenny Hval, performed across the US and Europe, and contributed album art and music video visuals to Hval’s 2022 album, Classic Objects. She has interviewed numerous artists for The Creative Independent, and is a contributor to the monograph Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Comic Relief as well as How to Fail Successfully, and Stay Inspired: Finding Motivation for Your Creative Work by Brandon Stosuy. Bielski’s work, performances, and writing have been covered by Art News, Hyperallergic, MTV, The New York Times, among others. Bielski has taught at The University of New Mexico and SUNY Buffalo, and currently lives and works in upstate New York.
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