CURRICULUM VITAE - Downloadable PDF
annelizabethwolf@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/annwolfpainter
518.316.1220
Born 1967, Poughkeepsie, New York
Lives and works in Rensselaerville, New York
Education
M.F.A. 2006 Studio Arts University at Albany Albany, New York
B.F.A. 1991 Surface Pattern Design Syracuse University Syracuse, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Hypnotized, SILO, Middleburgh, New York
2013 American Sublime, Carey Institute for Global Good, Rensselaerville, New York
1999 Fresh Oil, Cunneen Hackett Cultural Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Friday The 13th, Nonchalant Gallery, Catskill, New York
2023 Upstate Art Weekend, Bull Farm, Rock Tavern, New York
Art on Paper, Pier 36, New York, New York
2022 It’s A Wrap, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Shimmer, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
2021 Magic Garden, LabSpace, Hillsdale, New York
2019 Puro Arte, Martinez Gallery, Troy, New York
Picture This, APL/Opalka Gallery, Albany, New York
Surveys the Prairie of Your Room, costumes for Witness Relocation performance, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
HOLIDAY, LabSpace, Hillsdale, New York
2018 Be Still Life, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
True North, LabSpace, Hillsdale, New York
Parallel Realities, Collar Works, Troy, New York
2016 Exquisite, LabSpace, Hillsdale, New York
Casheesh, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
2015 After School Special, University at Albany, Albany, New York (curated by Ken Johnson) (catalogue)
Two-Person Exhibition, From the Center of Our World, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, New York
Vignette, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, New York
2010 Benefit for The Front, Nurture Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Two-Person Exhibition, New Work: Alberto Caputo/Ann Wolf, Way Out Gallery, Rensselaerville, New York
2008 It’s Gouache and Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, New York
2007 A Happening, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
2006 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, University at Albany, Albany, New York
2005 Best of SUNY Exhibition, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
Professional Experience
2019 Witness Relocation production of Surveys the Prairie of Your Room, La Mama, New York, New York (designed costumes)
2008-09 Youth Services Assistant - Grinnell Library Association, Wappinger Falls, New York (planned and oversaw teen services and events)
2000-05 Curator of Visual Resources, University at Albany, Albany, New York (oversaw 90,000 slides, managed work study students, and assisted patrons)
1998-00 Visual Resources Technician, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (assisted art historians with audiovisual requirements during class time)
1992-93 Swimwear pattern designer, Henry Glass & Co., New York, New York (created textile patterns for bathing suits)
Teaching Experience
2007-13 Adjunct Professor, University at Albany, Albany, New York (Beginning and Intermediate Painting, Drawing)
2008-11 Adjunct Professor, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, New York (Two Dimensional Design)
2006-07 Adjunct Professor, Sage Colleges, Albany, New York (Two Dimensional Design, Color Theory)
2005-06 Instructor of Record, University at Albany, Albany, New York (Two Dimensional Design)
2000-05 Curator of Visual Resources, University at Albany, Albany, New York (oversaw 90,000 slides, managed work study students, and assisted patrons)
Residencies and Awards
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, Vermont
2019 Design finalist, The Living Desert Museum, Palm Desert, California
2006 Milton Avery Internship – Curatorial Assistant, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York
1999 Dutchess County Arts Council Studio Residency, Poughkeepsie, New York
Selected Press
“It’s A Wrap Holiday Show Opens at Bernay Fine Art,” The Berkshire Eagle, Dec. 8, 2022
Smullen, Sharon, “These Works of Art Shimmer,” The Berkshire Eagle, March 24, 2022
Janairo, Michael, “Vignette Gives Intriguing Scenes at the Arts Center,” Albany Times Union, January 18, 2011.
http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Vignette-gives-intriguing-scenes-at-the-Arts-978633.php#xzz1CFZlkXrg
Kane, Tim, “So Much To See,” Albany Times Union, October 6, 2011.
http://albarchive.merlionone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&oneimageid=160695577
littlethings.com - “Shine” series featured artist, 2017
WMHT - “Mentoring in the Capital District” - interview, 2018
Selected Publications
After School Special - 2011 Alumni Show
Professional Memberships
2022 Rensselaerville Historical Society
2006 College Art Association – member 2001-05
2000 Visual Resources Association – Secretary 2002-03
Selected Collections
Virginia Carter, Rensselaerville, New York
A.G. Rosen, New York, New York
JoAnn Secor, Sag Harbor, New York
Geoffrey Young, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Lynn Love, Rensselaerville, New York
Hugh Freund, New York, New York
Sutton Hays, New York, New York
Ellen Rooney, London, England
Artist Statement
My landscape paintings recreate the naturally occurring tableaus I witness, in all their mystery, while wandering in undeveloped spaces far from the built world. The Helderberg Plateau in the Hudson Valley gradually rises to meet the Catskill Mountain range west of the Hudson River. Residing here I find there is a rare power and magic in inhabiting one of the remaining wild places on earth.
The women painters of the Hudson River School have recently gained recognition for their depictions of the Hudson Valley and its environs and I see myself as a descendant of their painting tradition. While they portrayed the majesty of the American landscape, I am consistently aware that I paint the last remnants of a world that will eventually be overtaken by development or decimated by climate change. I regard my subjects simultaneously with joy and sadness and I invite my audience to join me as I appreciate and memorialize the transcendent experience of nature. The images I make are my counterweight to the assault of humanity on our world.
I work from photographs that fix in time a moment, through the mediums of oil on panel and gouache and watercolor on paper. I visit a particular scene many times, light my chosen subject in the field, photograph, crop or otherwise manipulate the image that will then serve as my subject in the studio. My canvases are small, 10” x 8” or less, and they are exact depictions of an occult scene I have encountered, the tunnel of a mouse or a hidden cavity under a thicket of raspberry bushes.
The Catskill Mountains, once termed, “the faery region of the Hudson,” by the 19th Century writer Washington Irving contain portals, entrances into a world covered in fae glamour, literal enchantments. I seek moments that capture the feeling of a spell cast or a door opening into another realm, a sacred offering to viewers in a world increasingly void of magic.
