The following announcement was provided by Storefront Art Projects:
Storefront Art Projects presents: Anne Lilly – reverb from Sept. 6 to Oct. 11. Reception Sept. 6, 1-4 p.m. Gallery Hours Thursday and Saturday 1-4 p.m. (or by appointment).
In 2018 Anne Lilly, installed Temple of Mnemon, an architectural environment on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. It involved shifting mirrors and benches and the sky. She had been doing kinetic sculptures for many years. Now she is making kinetic-seeming paintings in watercolor and oil. In her words, she is “creating illusions of space and movement within a flat plane, rather than actual movement in the physical space of the world.” With pattern, color and meticulous brush strokes the paintings seem to have a beat that reverberates with your heart.
Anne Lilly has received the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, the Blanche E. Colman Grant, and visiting artist positions at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Art Institute of Boston. Her work was included in a landmark exhibition of kinetic art at the MIT Museum, and has been collected by the Jewish Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and numerous corporate and private collections internationally. In 2017, Interview Magazine named her exhibit the “#1 Pick” of the Seattle Art Fair, and she was the invitational lecturer and guest critic at Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture, magna cum laude, from Virginia Tech, an MFA in Visual Art from Clark University, and has taught at Boston College, RISD, MIT, MassArt, and Suffolk University. She is represented by Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA, and William Baczek Fine Arts in Northampton, MA.
Storefront Art Projects is located at 83 Spring St., Watertown, MA. See more at www.storefrontartprojects.com