RAIR | 2018-19

Anne Muntges | Brooklyn, NY

Anne Muntges is an artist who makes highly detailed drawings, prints, and installation art. Born in Denver and based in Brooklyn, her work was recently on view in the exhibition Drawn In, at the Children’s Museum of the Arts in Manhattan, New York. She has been exhibited at the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo among many other spaces nationally. She received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University at Buffalo. Muntges has been awarded residencies at Anchor Graphics, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Ox-Bow, BRIC Media, Guttenberg Arts & Roswell Artist in Residence Program and received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artist Books in 2014. Her work is in collections across the US.

I am interested in exploring drawing thoroughly from marks made on paper to marks made in immersive environments. While in residence I plan to work on graphite and pen and ink drawings — trying to explore new content stemming from research about glitch moments and the observable world, and trying to push the scale of the works to larger pieces. I also plan to work on new installation projects that explore ways to combine my three-dimensional drawing projects with these new graphite and ink drawings. I want to create worlds that surround people with the drawn mark and to create a space where the inscribed is made real.

www.annemuntges.com

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Rair exhibition • Anne Muntges "Consuming Moment" March 23-May 12, 2019

Drawing is my key to understanding the world I live in – urban landscapes, filled with concrete, buildings and bursts of manicured green. I look to use drawing to capture the evidence of people in the places they occupy in these landscapes, by drawing the artifacts they have left behind—discarded signs, manhandled objects, spray painted opinions. My images are real moments, sometimes fractured and altered, caught quickly in snapshot. They focus on words that are handwritten, carved and sometimes printed. The marks we leave in the world tell a rich story of who we are and how we existed. My drawings help me to understand that and freeze them for a moment.

I work in different mediums, but focus on graphite, charcoal and pen on paper or wood panel. My work ebbs between traditional drawing and immersive drawing installations. I let the direction of the images captured in snapshot dictate the material so that each piece is a unique experience. - Anne Muntges