Ann Guiliani
Peacock Palm, Lithograph with Monotype
Bio
The main inspiration for Ann’s work has always been about concepts and ideas that come out of daily life experiences. It’s also about movement and gestural statements that, to Ann, are the truest form of expression. Moving between painting and printmaking, she is highly prolific and since moving back to Cape Cod in 2014, she has had numerous solo shows such as at The Cape Museum of Art in Dennis, “Nature: The Obsessive Quest”; The Cotuit Center for the Arts: “Shifting and Unfolding”; Highfield Hall and Gardens in Falmouth: “Trees”; Cape Cod Hospital, “24 works”; and the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, “Surfacing”. She is a gallery artist at Cape Cod Art Center and the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset and is now represented by the AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet.
Statement
My images start from daily life experiences: “something seen or experienced that must be said”. How I visually interact with a person or a place is never the same. Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher from the 5th century BC, believed that you could never step in the same river twice because it is not the same river, and you are not the same person. I share that belief. For me, life is fleeting and in a state of constant change. Through my art, I try to catch that moment and freeze it and perhaps revisit the image to see it in a different way. For me. Art is tantalizingly real and a part of my daily life. I’m constantly painting and printmaking. There is a sense of immediacy no matter the tool or the medium I use. Marks must be immediate and direct and have the look of “just being born” even though they could be the result of contemplation over a period of time. I will never wake up and wonder what I will create, because the moment is there and all that is needed is to enter that private space and express it.