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. She is a recipient of a 2025 Bolster Arts Continuum Fellowship, and has received funding from the Karen Shea and Gabe Silverman Endowment, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at 5-50 Gallery NY, The Wiregrass Museum, AL, and Ferrara Showman Gallery New Orleans. Additional exhibitions include White Columns NY, the Painting Center NY, the Alexandria Museum LA, and the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans. Before dedicating herself full time to her studio practice, Auricchio spent 25 years as a scenic artist and designer for film, theater, and television. Her work is held in private and public collections including McNeese University, Azamara Cruise Lines, and the Scott Company, Her work has been reviewed in the Denver Post, Inside of Knoxville, and Whitehot Magazine.
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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
2026 Forthcoming- Artspace NC Ann Marie Auricchio & Arden Bendler Browning
2025 Wiregrass Museum of Art | Rupture & Bloom: Ann Marie Auricchio, Dothan, AL
5-50 Gallery | TEMPESTA : Ann Marie Auricchio, LIC, NY
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 Lilienthal Gallery, Knoxville TN | Deconstructing Landscape
Art Conscious, New Orleans LA | Downriver
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 LA | Phantasma, curated by Elliot Stokes
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
Ann Marie Auricchio creates paintings that examine the psychological dimensions of disruption and renewal. Her work uses bold sweeping abstract gestures inspired by geological and atmospheric elements to explore how moments of collapse contain generative potential. Her paintings reframe overwhelm as a transformative threshold where breaking points become opportunities for regeneration across personal, ecological, and societal realms.
Auricchio's process begins with intuitive marks that build into complex psychological landscapes. Working across scales, she creates large acrylic and oil paintings that engage the full body with intense movement and loud energy, alongside intimate works on paper that access more lucid meditative states. Her most recent work features irregularly shaped oil paintings derived from intricate paper collages, their organic forms and jagged edges mirroring how understanding emerges from fragmented experience. These departures from rectangular tradition challenge objecthood and spatial perception while reflecting memory's non-linear nature.
Drawing from Abstract Expressionism's gestural intensity, the Romantic tradition's emotional engagement with natural forces, and Surrealism's investigation of psychological terrain, Auricchio navigates between personal trauma and collective anxiety. Her sweeping arcs and turbulent color fields evoke both internal emotional states and external natural phenomena—tidal waves, atmospheric turbulence, and geological formations. Through this visual vocabulary, her work contributes to contemporary dialogues about vulnerability and embodied experience in an era of environmental and social transformation.
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