Annie Arrasmith

For me, the essential element in a work of art is the spirit/life/energy in the work that animates it and creates a living, breathing center. I work to create art that has a discernable visual pulse, art that is alive, art with a living center. I work to make art that you can hear with your eyes and your heart. - Annie Arrasmith

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.
-from Rumi

BIO:
Annie Arrasmith is a printmaker using non-traditional techniques like kaolin monotype, multi-pass relief and mixed media to create art with a specific vibratory signature. "I am looking for a certain sound in the piece," she says. "When I find it, I know the piece is alive. I'm interested in the auditory nature of color, and the push and pull of negative and positive space: is this figure an object, or a doorway that I walk through? Or is it a doorway through which something comes, some color, or sound, or memory? That doorway between the seen and the unseen, the sacred and the mundane. that's what draws me in. Not representation. Embodiment." Annie is currently working on a series of large 6' x 3' kaolin monotypes called The Magdalene, using hand-mixed pigments and Afghan textile stamps. Annie graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies after attending the Pacific Northwest College of Art.