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AnneKarin Glass
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Biography
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AnneKarin was born into an environment where originality and creativity were prized and rewarded. She began her studies at her father's knee. AnneKarin spent most of her summer vacations during her childhood at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where her father headed the Industrial Design Department. Her father is Henry P. Glass, one of the founders of the field of industrial design and one of the most important designers in America during the 20th century. His work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as museum and private collections in the United States and Europe. Her mother, Eleanor, is a guilded master dressmaker. She continued to study and create, paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture during high school and college. In the Peace Corps in Brazil, she established a leather goods factory to give unemployed leather workers steady jobs. She was responsible for designing and making the patterns for shoes, bags, belts, jewelry and household items in leather. She also produced a body of woodcut prints.
Subsequent to finishing her Master's degree at Illinois Institute of Technology, she moved to San Francisco, where she established her own corporation. She has designed and produced architectural graphics as well as illustrations, photographs and graphic design for print and electronic media. She continues to educate her hand and eye through drawing, painting, sculpture and photography. The form of the human figure and the emotion of gesture frequently inspire her drawings and paintings. Her sculpture expresses humor and pathos through constructions in various materials such as bicycle boxes, sheet copper, rope, vinyl, and papier mache. Her photography focuses on abstraction, the colors and textures in the natural world.
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Statement
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Making art is a journey analogous to my life itself. It exercises my senses, my body, my emotions, my intellect, and my intuition. The process unifies my being; it roots me in my soul. It places me in a position where I must struggle to make order out of chaos, to invent and test possible solutions, to select, assemble, combine, and discard from the various ideas that suggest themselves. Thus, I find a resolution that produces a feeling of completion and aesthetic satisfaction. This process of solving visual problems by trial and error is an adventure into the unknown; it is a search for the "ah ha!" of discovery. I make this pilgrimage into my inner self with no map. I feel my way through the labyrinth of light and form and color because I need to; it makes me feel alive.
The journey is difficult and risky. I encounter dwindling trails, dead ends, and countless forks in the road-perplexing decisions: choosing a challenging subject, selecting appropriate materials, determining a meaningful point(s) of view, organizing objects dynamically in space, finding and balancing shapes and colors effectively, employing light dramatically. The results of these decisions create perspective, volume, movement, and texture, which establish an emotional, mental and spiritual relationship to you, the viewer.
In practicing this mysterious process, I hope to join your path with mine, to bond my soul with yours.
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Exhibitions
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2003 Naughty or Nice--From Abstract to Erotic Art, ArtworkSF
2003 Color Photography at Squat & Gobble, 1428 Haight St., S.F.
2003 Black & White Photography at Squat & Gobble, 237 Fillmore St., S.F.
2004 American Mythology, Stories, traditions, characteristics, and ideals that make up America as we know or at least perceive it to be. Reception: 1/7, 6-9pm at Polarity Post Production, 69 Green St., S.F. Two floors of art & free parking.
Chicago Artists Show Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Traces of Experience 23rd Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Salon International 2002 Green House Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Ten SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Artists Modesto Lanzoni Gallery, San Francisco, CA
18th Annual Juried Competition Coastal Art League, Half Moon Bay, CA
Art for AIDS 2003 Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, CA
Potrero Hill Artists Show 1979-2002 San Francisco Public Library, Potrero Branch, San Francisco, CA
Open Studio San Francisco, CA
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