Anne Siems
Installation View | December 2015
Installation View | December 2015
Installation View | December 2015
Installation View | December 2015
Installation View | December 2015
Anne Siems presents Dream Lessons, with paintings that explore the role of dreams and the unconscious in her creative process. Landscapes recede and people, animals and objects move into the forefront of her work.
Born in Germany, Anne Siems received her MFA in 1991 from Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin. She has exhibited in the United States since the mid-1980s, at galleries in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Her work is in various public collections including the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Boise Art Museum, ID; Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; and University Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle,
At first glance, the large-scale paintings in Anne Siems' Dream Lessons appear to be fantastical whimsy, like the illustrations of a Victorian-era children's book come to life. On one canvas, an owl perches in a fair young girl's antlers while a hare rests at her feet. In another, a woman holds a duck in her arms while eggs rain from the sky.
Two artists address the figure in strikingly different ways: one via magical realism, the other with a minimalist, architectonic approach.