STATEMENT
I have always loved the human form, and, for that matter, any organic form, so it has usually been the core of my work. These figures tend to be realized through a kinetic sense of line and brush stroke. I enjoy pushing anatomical form into new shapes, and sometimes merging human and animal anatomies. In my alternate universe these figures live in an atmosphere as solid and active as the figures themselves, all sharing one plane.
BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in New York City, Ann-Marie Light studied painting at The Brooklyn Museum Art School on a scholorship and The Cooper Union, where she received three summer painting scholorships at the Provincetown Workshop run by Leo Manso and Victor Candell, graduating with a CFA and the Cooper Union Fine Art Award. Soon after, she began a career as an advertising Art Director. She resumed painting twelve years ago and attended Hunter College, where she studied with Robert Swain, Gabrielle Evertz and Emily Mason, who awarded her a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She has been working independently for the last eight years both in New York City and Massachusetts.
Her work has appeared in many group shows at the Housetonic Valley Art League, Great Barrington, MA; The Trinity Gallery, Lime Rock, CT; an invitational at the 510 Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY; and a solo show at the Sandisfield Arts Center, Sandisfield, MA.