A lifelong resident of New York’s Hudson Valley, Anne Gorrick is an artist and writer who works mainly in encaustic (monotype and painting) and cyanotype, as well as with nontraditional materials like automotive exhaust, motor oil, and spray graphite. She works in the reflected shadows of the Hudson River School of painting, as well as in the light cast by the ever present environmental reckoning that comes with the resurrection and resolution of the Hudson’s historied polluted waters.

“Seriality, modularity and reuse have become key ideas.  I’m fascinated with clarity and ambiguity, accumulation and structural patterns, with flexibility and unrepeatability. I paint and print with all sorts of plant-based and human garbage detritus, especially packing materials, which have come to dominate our life in the past few years.  This work is process-driven, temporal, while mixing intention with chance.  That art and writing can be made in pieces and rearranged and put back together is a long term fascination, reflecting our fractured and bifurcated world where the analog and digital intersect.  I employ Cageian chance to find luminous moments in grief, beauty and hilarity. Drawn to the possibilities of translucence and luminosity, and born in the heat of melted beeswax, resin and pigment, my work seeks to cross/suture the divide/damage between ourselves and the world, the verbal and the visual.”

Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, NY.