ANN MARIE AURICCHIO
ABOUT ME
BIO
Ann Marie Auricchio is an abstract painter based in New Orleans, LA. Her work emerges from a visceral, emotionally charged process in which opposing energies take physical form. Saturated, high-frequency color and movements that push beyond the edges of the composition create a sense of force and volatility central to her practice.
Auricchio earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a recipient of the 2025 Bolster Arts Continuum Fellowship and has received support from the Karen Shea and Gabe Silverman Endowment and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Recent solo exhibitions include
5-50 Gallery in New York, the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Alabama, and Ferrara Showman Gallery in New Orleans. Additional exhibitions include White Columns (NY), The Painting Center (NY), the Alexandria Museum of Art (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, and has been reviewed in the Denver Post, Inside of Knoxville, and Whitehot Magazine.
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EDUCATION
1994
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2026 Ucross Foundation Residency forthcoming fall 2026
2025 Bolster Arts Continuum Fellowship, New York, NY
2023 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Funded Fall Residency
Karen Shea and Gabe Silverman Endowment Fund
2021/22 The Joan Mitchell Center Residency, New Orleans, LA
Fully funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2027 (forthcoming) Project: ARTspace NYC
Under Pressure (with Arden Bendler Browning
(forthcoming) ArtSpace North Carolina
Two Worlds Within (with Arden Bendler Browning)
2026 Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Force of Color (with Ryoko Endo)
2025 Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
Rupture and Bloom
5–50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Tempesta
2024 Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
On the Lip of a Storm — Solo Booth, curated by Ernie Sandidge
Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Burning Inside
2023 Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO
We Are All Heroes
2022 Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Inner Worlds / Outer Worlds (with Sherry Owens)
The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Works on Paper
2020 Pop-Up @ 454 Julia, New Orleans, LA
Yellin in My Ear
2000 The NY Body Archive, New York, NY
New Skin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition
5–50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Off-Kilter- Ann Marie Auricchio, Lesley Brodsky, Debbi Kenote
Lilienthal Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Deconstructing Landscape
Art Conscious, New Orleans, LA
Downriver
KAPOW, New York, NY
Bolster 1. Layered, curated by Maty Sall
2024 San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Ferrara Showman Gallery
2023 Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Remember Earth, curated by Erin Antonak
IBIS Gallery, New Orleans, LA
An Outside Chance
2022 Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
Possible Impossible Worlds / 6th Louisiana Biennial, juried by Rebecca Hart
The Painting Center, New York, NY
Ethereal Communication, curated by Shazzi Thomas and Chase Cantwell
Michael Warren Contemporary Denver, CO
Spring Selections
Art Conscious, New Orleans, LA
Phantasma, curated by Elliot Stokes
Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
Resilience: A Visual Proclamation
2021 Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Ann Marie Auricchio, Mia Kaplan, Erika Larkin-Gaudet
South Hampton Art Fair, Hamptons, NY
Octavia Art Gallery
The Painting Center, New York, NY
Once in a Year, curated by Shazzi Thomas and Chase Cantwell
EDNA Contemporary, San Luis Obispo, CA
Abstraction, Landscape, and Light
2020 Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
33rd September Juried Exhibition, juried by Kristen Miller Zohn
Shaw Center for the Arts – Mansfield Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
ArtFlow
2019 SITE:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Landscape: Real and Imagined, juried by Eileen Jeng Lynch
2000 White Columns, New York, NY
Foreign Bodies
1999 White Columns, New York, NY
OuterBurroughs
ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Beware the Ides of March
1998 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
WAR
PUBLICATIONS
Catalog Essays
2025
Rupture and Bloom, exhibition catalog, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL.
Essay by Dana-Marie Lemmer, Executive Director & Curator.
Juried Catalogs
2025
Tender, I Like Your Work Winter Catalog, juried by Kevin Ivester.
2016
Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 33, juried by Michael Lash.
Selected Press
2025
“Off-Kilter,” WhiteHot Magazine, by Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
“Deconstructing Landscapes at Lilienthal Gallery,” Inside Knoxville
2023
“Old-School Ideas About Art and Literature Get an Update,” Denver Post, by 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
Statement
My abstract paintings explore how opposing energies can exist within the same moment. I make compositions charged with saturated color and movement, using imagined geological and atmospheric upheavals as a physical language for inner experience. Certain internal states register in me as forces. They build, intensify, and move through the body. Painting gives them form. I work at a scale that relates the body directly to this intensity.
Encompassing rectilinear paintings, works on paper, collage, and large-scale shaped paintings on panel, my practice is grounded in an intuitive process of building and disrupting the composition. Forceful, sweeping gestures come into tension with fine linear counterpoint as marks accumulate, interrupt one another, and redirect the movement of the composition. These opposing elements create surfaces in which structure and chaos remain in continual negotiation. In my recent work, paper collages serve as the structural and conceptual foundation for large-scale oil paintings on irregularly shaped panels.
The work extends a tradition of using nature to express human experience, from Romanticism’s sublime to Abstract Expressionism’s emphasis on gesture and mark. Amid climate extremes, psychological strain, and a technology that increasingly pulls us from our bodies, reconnecting inner life to the physical world feels newly essential.