Angela Warren
JUNE 2012
Angela Warren – Seeing is Hearing
I create space in which multi-sensory occurrences fuse within sound and painting. My paintings are layered from many moments in time, light and sound; ever-changing and overlapping. I look at shifts in light, changes in color and focus on layers of transitional music. The viewing experience is continual, noticing variations in color and layers of paint. Some of the paintings reflect many movements in a score and others just one, all stemming from musical themes.
In considering this body of work, I took into account the space in which they would be hung. The music, the blue walls, the stained-glass light, the events happening here; they all influence your senses. The paintings are a part of the space, a continuation of the stage. The audience is both viewer and listener.
Green Piano Orange Violin is based on Sergei Prokofiev’s four movement musical score, Sonata No.2 in D major Op. 94: l, ll, lll, lV. Each movement is layered within this painting. Much in the same way the light shifts as the sun moves in and out of clouds. The sonata starts off in a light tempo and finishes at a very brisk one; a very dramatic piece.
In viewing these paintings and reading their musical titles the viewer is given the tools to engage both sight and sound. Seeing a painting and imagining a sound stimulates a multi-sensory experience. Senses talk to one another. I create space in which sound and painting interact. To hear Green Piano Orange Violin go to angelawarrenart.com, I invite you to hear what you see.
Angela Warren
207-469-8236
Education
MFA 2011 Studio Art, Maine College of Art
BFA 2007 Painting, Minor in Printmaking, Drake University
Exhibition Record (*solo shows marked by asterisk)
2012 *Mayo Street Arts Center, Seeing is Hearing, Portland, ME
2012 *Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery, Bark as Muse, Hamden, CT
2012 Portland Museum of Art, Artists Intervention, Portland, ME
2012 Space Gallery, Free For All, Portland, ME
2011 June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Two Painters, Portland, ME
2011 Kahbang Arts, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Bangor, ME
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
2011 Fun-A-Day, The Aphodian, Portland, ME
2010 *A Proposition of Color and Sound, screening, ICA, Portland, ME
2010 Sacred and Profane, Portland, ME
2010 Friedman Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2010 * A, Free Street Gallery, Portland, ME
2010 Collective, Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME
2010 * Bark as Muse, M&B Gallery, Portland, ME
2010 Diverse Landscapes, Lincoln Street Gallery, Rockland, ME
2009 Collage Party, I.C.A., Portland, ME
2009 * Blue Hill Co-op Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
2008 Walk in Closet, Thoreau Center, Des Moines, IA
2008 Des Moines Art Center Student Show, Des Moines Art Center, IA
2007 Full Frontal: The Art of Confrontation, Des Moines, IA
2007 East Village Art Coalition Juried Exhibition, Des Moines, IA
2007 Badlands, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
2007 * Shifting Grounds, BFA Thesis Exhibition, The Fitch Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2007 36th Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Awards
2011 Joan Mitchell Grant Foundation, Nominee
2009-2011 Maine College of Art Scholarship, Portland, ME
2007 Annual Student Juried Exhibition:
First Place in Painting, Drake University
2006 Second Place in Sculpture, Drake University
2005 Honorable Mention in Printmaking, Drake University
2008 Des Moines Art Center Scholarship, Des Moines, IA
2003-2007 Presidential Scholarship, Drake University
2003-2007 Department of Art and Design Scholarship, Drake University
Teaching
2012 Instructor, Maine College of Art, Continuing Studies Program, spring 2012
2011 Adjunct Professor, Maine College of Art, fall 2011, Foundation Drawing
2011 Instructor, Maine College of Art, Continuing Studies Program, fall 2011
2011 Teaching Assistant, Maine College of Art, spring 2011 (instructor of record) Special Projects in
Painting
2010 Teaching Assistant, Maine College of Art, spring 2010 (instructor of record) Critical Approaches
Teaching Assistant, Maine College of Art, Fall 2010 (instructor of record) Women and Art
2008 Teaching Assistant, Des Moines Art Center, Spring 2008 Printmaking
Professional Service
2011 Currently serving on the board of directors for Kabang Arts Festival, Bangor, ME
2009 Co-Founder of Central Street Studios Artist Collective, Bangor, ME
2009 Gay Pride Festival Exhibition, Bangor, ME
2008 Bangor Sidewalk Festival, Bangor, ME
2008 West Market Square Festival, Bangor, ME
Exhibitions Curated
2011 Kahbang Arts Festival, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Bangor, ME
2010 Thing Event, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2010 Collective, Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME
Visiting Artist Lectures
2011 Maine College of Art, Art Educators Week, Portland, ME
Commissions
2009-2010 Eastern Maine Medical Center, Public Arts Commission, Bangor, ME
2008 Lucca Restaurant, Paintings, Des Moines, IA