Annalise is a visual artist who paints as a way to give an abstract, descriptive container for imagined emotional webs to exist. Emotive forms crash, color dances and pools, active lines seek to contain the often dramatic conversation of what shape gets to exist where, how does all this color fit together, and how do different feelings blend and boundary?
The language of these worlds are built from gestures, paint watered down to move as fluidly as our emotions do and cascading lines that aim to contain. Almost like a puzzle, these emotional formulas are all seeking to be a part of the whole. Water under a microscope knows that it is being observed, and will behave differently under a watchful eye. I see most of my work as a snapshot of what I call the undercurrents of emotion that we are all connected to; as soon as we look away, these currents continue on, changed only for the moment due to our watchful eye.
Annalise is an Atlanta based visual artist who works with large abstract paintings, drawings and photography. She received her BFA in 2019 from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and is currently an active member of the South River Arts Studio collective and a teaching artist in residence at Arts Beacon, teaching community classes in Expressive Drawing. She has been included in many group shows around Atlanta and regionally, and recently won a scholarship to study Drawing at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, upcoming in August 2024. Recent solo exhibitions include “Paintings in Correspondence” at Grant + Little, 2023, and “Stockholm Syndrome” at South River Arts Studio, 2022.