ABOUT ME
BIO
Ann Marie Auricchio (b. 1972, Queens, NY) lives and works in New Orleans, LA. Originating from a raw visceral space, Her paintings put a lens on the power of vulnerability, giving form to external forces impinging on internal landscapes. Her paintings are not quiet spaces of reflection, but rather a place to hold the loud energy of confrontation.
Auricchio earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has attended residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Ferrara Showman Gallery (New Orleans, LA), the Spring/Break Art Show NYC, and Michael Warren Contemporary (Denver, CO) Her work has been exhibited nationally in commercial galleries as well as with alternative and institutional spaces such as White Columns NY, the Painting Center NY, the Alexandria Museum LA, and the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans. Auricchio previously held a 25-year tenure in the entertainment industry as a scenic artist and designer for film, theater, and television. Included in many private collections nationally, her work is also a part of the permanent collections of McNeese State University, Azamara Cruise Lines and the Scott Companies. Her work has been reviewed in the Denver Post, and Whitehot Magazine. A forthcoming solo show is scheduled for Fall 2025 at the Wiregrass Museum in Alabama.
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Education/ Residencies
1994 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
2025 NY Crit Club Spring Visiting Critics Program
2025 Forthcoming Fall Residency Pouch Cove, Newfoundland
2023 Virginia Center of Creative Arts | Karen Shea and Gabe Silverman Endowment Funded Fall Residency
2021/22 The Joan Mitchell Center Residency | Fully funded through the Joan Mitchell Foundation
Solo + Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 Forthcoming Fall Solo Wiregrass Museum / Rupture and Bloom
2024 Spring Break Art Show NYC- On the Lip of a Storm | Solo Booth
Curated by Ernie Sandidge
2024 Ferrara Showman Gallery | Burning Inside: Ann Marie Auricchio, New Orleans, LA
2023 Michael Warren Contemporary | We Are All Heroes: Ann Marie Auricchio, Denver, CO.
2022 Octavia Gallery | Inner Worlds/Outer Worlds: Ann Marie Auricchio & Sherry Owens, New Orleans, LA
2022 The Front Gallery | Works on Paper: Ann Marie Auricchio, New Orleans, LA.
2020 Pop-up @454 Julia | Yellin in My Ear, New Orleans, LA.
2000 The NY Body Archive | New Skin, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2025 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City | OFF-KILTER Ann Marie Auricchio,
Lesley Bodsky, Debbi Kenote
2024 San Francisco Art Fair | Ferrara Showman Gallery
2023 IBIS Gallery | An Outside Chance. New Orleans, LA.
2022 The Painting Center New York | Ethereal Communication, New York, NY.
Art Conscious New Orleans | Phantasma, curated by Elliot Stokes. New Orleans, LA.
Upstart Modern | Resilience/A Visual Proclamation, Sausalito, CA
Contemporary Art Center NOLA | Remember Earth, curated by Erin Antonak, New Orleans, LA.
Michael Warren Contemporary | Selection of Gallery Artists Spring Exhibition, Denver, CO
Louisiana Tech University | Possible Impossible Worlds / 6th Louisiana Biennial Juried by Rebecca Hart.
2021 Octavia Gallery | Ann Marie Auricchio, Mia Kaplan, Erika Larkin- Gaudet, New Orleans, LA
Octavia Gallery | Selections from the Roster, South Hampton Art Fair. The Hamptons, NY.
The Painting Center New York | Once in a Year, juried group show. New York, NY.
EDNA Contemporary | Abstraction, Landscape, and Light, San Luis Obispo CA
2020 Alexandria Museum of Art | 33rd September Juried Exhibition juried by Kristen Miller Zohn, Louisiana
Shaw Center for the Arts Mansfield Gallery | ArtFlow 2020 Group Show, Baton Rouge, LA
2019 SITE:Brooklyn Gallery | Landscape: Real And Imagined, j juried by Eileen Jeng Lynch. New York, NY
2016 Martine Chaisson Gallery | Spring Group Show. New Orleans
2000 White Columns | Foreign Bodies, New York, NY
1999 White Columns | Outer Burroughs, New York, NY
1999. ABC No RIO | Beware the Ides of March, New York, NY
1998 Postmasters | WAR, New York, NY
Publications
2025 Trio Show 'OFF-KILTER'at 5-50 Gallery is On Point, White Hot Magazin, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
2023 Old-school ideas about art and literature get an update, Denver post critic Ray Rinaldi
2022 We Hit the Road in Search of the Flyover States’ Most Exciting Creatives, Print magazine by Chloe Gordon
2021 The Creatives, Adore Magazine By Katy Danos and Michaela Bechler
2016 Studio Visit Magazine: Volume Thirty Three, juried selection by Michael Lash
Statement
I create emotionally driven paintings that explore the intersection of psychological and physical experiences. With a predisposition for anxiety, my work is about leaning into the discomfort of navigating an often tumultuous world. This exploration was catalyzed by my first encounter with panic, which manifested as an all-consuming tidal wave of sensation. These moments of intense presence and absence speak to broader tensions as we navigate mounting social, political, and environmental uncertainties.
These internal and external turbulences find form in my work through geological and atmospheric metaphors, reflected through abstract gestures. This abstraction isn't merely formal; it embodies psychological states and somatic experiences. By weaving elements of vegetation, water, and fire into abstract fields, I create tension between recognition and disorientation that mirrors anxiety and dissociation, while challenging divisions between representational and non-representational painting.
Each scale of work serves a distinct role in processing experience - large scale acrylic and oil paintings engage directly with my body, confronting overwhelming feelings head on, while small works on paper create space for intimate meditation. My newest work examines and recontextualizes experiences through paper collages and subsequent reinterpretation through large irregularly shaped oil paintings on panel. The irregular, organic shapes emerge from the collage process itself - jagged edges and complex forms materialize as fragments coalesce into new wholes.
Throughout all media, my work examines vulnerability while giving form to uncomfortable realities we face within and in opposition to ourselves, inviting viewers to recognize their own processes of psychological navigation and embodied experience.
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