Anid, Audree

Audrée Anid Statement & Techniques	Audrée's Main Page
*Refraction series* Oil paint on C-print (photographs)	La Foret, 6 x 4"
My present work speaks to the malleability of time by bringing to light moments from my personal past into the present through abstraction. I always strive to elicit both perceptual and emotional responses in the viewer. My series Refractions (change in direction) reconstructs and re-imagines the past and speaks to the vacillating nature of identity, memory, and place. The series includes hundreds of old family photographs printed in the 80s and 90s. Each piece serves as a reconciliation of my adult self with my former self through scratching away at the surfaces of the photographs with knives, imprinting web-like paint, and experimenting with color relationships.	La Foret, 6 x 4"
*Untitled series* This series of paintings examines the varied forms that emerge when painting with oil paint on deliberately placed newsprint on canvas. I’ve chosen to utilize print from different newspapers – ripping, cutting, and affixing them to the canvas before applying oil paint. Each piece has it’s own specific palette – they are my expressions of blue, teal, rose and orange.	Untitled III, Rose
Short biography Audrée Anid was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in the Bronx, New York in the United States. With roots in Beirut, Lebanon, Audrée is a first-generation American. She holds a B.A. in French Studies and Studio Art from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She has exhibited at several New York venues including, Photoville NYC at Brooklyn Bridge Park, The National Association of Women Artists, Brooklyn Fire Proof East Gallery, and Space Womb Gallery in Manhattan among others. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and works out of an art studio in Williamsburg.