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Anne Appleby is an American color field painter. Her works, always bearing titles from the natural world—"Sweet Pine", "Summer Aspen", "Gem"—are simple arrangements of colored canvas panels. Each panel is, at a glance, monochromatic, but closer inspection reveals deep and luminous gradations of hue, incremental tonal variations. Although associated by some with reductivism/minimalism, Appleby comes with a different philosophy, as her glowing fields of colors are inspired by landscapes and plants.
Appleby grew up in Pennsylvania, and moved to Montana at age 17. She received her B.F.A. in 1977 from the San Francisco Art Institute. Before attending the Art Institute in San Francisco, Appleby spent a fifteen year apprenticeship with an Ojibwe Indian elder in Montana. She learned patient observation of nature from him. Appleby would watch and translate into color the amazing cycles in her vast backyard of Montana. Leaves, stems, buds, fruit, seeds and more are transformed into two-dimensional portraits of captured moments in nature’s fluid evolution. She has started exhibiting in the early ’80s, but only achieved moderate success before the mid ’90s. Currently her CV counts more than 30 solo exhibitions, 3 awards and artworks present in a few museums, including the San Francisco MoMA.
Now, she lives at the edge of a national forest in St. Helena, Montana. She shows her paintings primarily at San Francisco’s Gallery Paule Anglim. She has worked in printmaking since 1997 at Crown Point Press.
安妮·阿普爾比Anne Appleby是一位美國色彩畫家。她的作品，一直承載自然界的稱謂 – “甜松”，“夏日白楊”，“寶石”—彩色帆佈板簡單的安排。每個面板一目了然，單色，但更仔細的檢查顯示色調的深度和明亮的層次，增量色調變化。雖然有些與簡約主義/極簡主義相關聯，但是Appleby帶來了不同的哲學，因為她的發光領域的顏色受到景觀和植物的啟發。
阿普爾比在賓夕法尼亞州長大，17歲時搬到了蒙大拿州。她收到了她的B.F.A. 1977年從舊金山藝術學院。在出席舊金山藝術學院之前，Appleby在蒙大拿州與Ojibwe的印度老人一起學習了十五年的學徒。她從他那裡學到耐心的觀察自然。 Appleby會在蒙大拿州廣闊的後院裡觀看和翻譯彩色的驚人的周期。葉，莖，芽，果實，種子等都被轉化為自然流體演化中捕捉瞬間的二維肖像。她已經在80年代初開始參展，但在90年代中期之前只取得了溫和的成功。目前她的個人簡歷包括30多個個人展覽，3個獎項和藝術作品，包括舊金山現代藝術博物館在內的幾個博物館。
現在，她住在蒙大拿州聖赫勒拿的國家森林邊緣。她主要在舊金山畫廊Paule Anglim展出她的作品。她從1997年開始在Crown Point Press從事版畫工作。
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Appleby Anne 阿普爾比·安妮 (1954) Color Field Post-Painterly Abstraction Americans
