January 2021

Anne Muntges: The Glowing Desert

Jan. 23–Mar. 21, 2021 // Curator: Lynn Hai

Fou Gallery is delighted to announce our first show in 2021—Anne Muntges: The Glowing Desert. This solo exhibition of Anne Muntges will be on view from January 23nd to March 21st. Muntges works with a wide range of media, including highly detailed drawings, prints, and installation. During the exhibition, the space of Fou Gallery will be turned into a desert botanical garden by her elaborately drawn objects.

November 2020

A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine

This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin.

FLUX : Vita Mutata

CURATOR: NATSUKI TAKAUJI
Virtual Exhibition: November 15 – January 30, 2021

“FLUX : Vita Mutata” aims to uncover the processes that artists may have newly invented and/or rediscovered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Artists in this exhibition display works made before the pandemic period as well as works made during the pandemic period. The exhibition focuses on presenting the artists’ transition from pre-pandemic through the lockdown and beyond.

The organization of this exhibition unfolds alphabetically by the name of the artists selected. Each artist section is structured as follows: name of the artist, the website of the artist, two (2) artworks created by the artist before the pandemic, two (2) artworks created during the pandemic, and the artist’s statement report the experience each of them has had in their own narrative about how the pandemic has influenced their life, artwork, and process.

Reclaimed, Reimagined

Selected by curators David Rios Ferreira, Kristen Racaniello, Jacob Rhodes, Caroline KIm.
Featuring: Kiki Aranita, Daphne Arthur, John-Michael Byrd, Patricia Cazorla & Nancy Saleme, Anna Cone, Krystal DiFronzo, Sami Mordecai Elderazi, Amalia Galdona Broche, Kat Geng, Amber Heaton, Marina Heintze, Marilyn Holsing, Case Jernigan, Sung Hwa Kim, Gabrielle Erika Lyons, Michelle Lynne Mayer, Ana Milenkovic, Daniel Morowitz, Deborah L. Morris, Anne Muntges, Daniela Puliti, Julie Marie Seibert, Lea Simoniello, Emma Steinkraus, Lauren West, Sasha Zaitseva

February 2020

Monira Foundation Resident

For the next year I will be an artist in residence with the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary Jersey City. By invitation from Ysabel Blasi and Karline Moeller, I will spend 12 months working on a new installation. Artifacts and in process shots will be posted on my site through out the year.

August 2019

Portal: Governor’s Island Art Fair

A nice shout out for my work at the 2019 Portal Art Fair. I’m Affordable!

9 Affordable Works We Love at Portal Art Fair, NY Least Pretentious Art Fair, Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, 2019

June 2019

Visions of Home, from Dream Memories to Trump Country

by: Thomas Micchelli

A great review of the show, Interior Monologues, up now at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey from Hyperallergic. Includes my parts of my ongoing installation Skewed Perspectives.

Check out the whole write up here: https://hyperallergic.com/502998/visions-of-home-from-dream-memories-to-trump-country/

March 2019

Consuming Moment

Come join me for my solo exhibition at the Roswell Museum of Art!

March 23-May 12, 2019
Roswell Museum and Art Center

Opening Reception: Friday, March 22, 6-7 pm with artist’s lecture at 5:30 pm

To learn more about the artist, please visit http://annemuntges.com

Drawing is Anne Muntges’ key to understanding the world she lives in – urban landscapes filled with concrete, buildings and bursts of manicured green. She captures the evidence of people in the places they occupy by drawing the artifacts they leave behind, from discarded signs and manhandled objects to spray-painted opinions. Her images are real moments, sometimes fractured and altered, caught quickly in snapshot. They focus on words that are handwritten, carved and sometimes printed. The marks we leave in the world tell a rich story of who we are and how we existed. Her drawings help her to understand that and freeze them for a moment.

February 2019

Interior Monologues

Excited to be included in this show curated by Mary Birmingham at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey! Open from February 22- June 16, 2019.

This group exhibition explores the real, imagined, or implied narratives connected to interior spaces. Several of the artists in Interior Monologues depict real places—some populated by specific characters—while others invent new places based on their own experience or imagination. Many of the works suggest hidden histories or embedded memories and emotions. The interiors devoid of people are like empty stage sets waiting for actors to animate them. Whether public or private, all of these interior settings are activated by the presence (or absence) of humans.

Interior Monologues is a multi-media show, incorporating painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, video, and site-specific installation. Participating artists are: Matt Bollinger, Erin Diebboll, Susan Leopold, Dana Levy, Summer McCorkle, Anne Muntges, Casey Ruble, and Paul Wackers.

October 2018

Women Who Rock

More than excited to be apart of the book project Women Who Rock. Official release date is in Ocotber, but you can take first peaks at the book here and even preorder! http://bit.ly/WWRbook

Parallax 6

Excited to have collaborated with Damian Weber on a broadside for the new edition of Parallax from Singing Saw Press! The PARALLAX portfolio, is an annual journal, a collection of broadsides, each featuring the work of one artist and one poet. Each piece included is a collaboration and dialogue between image and text. We are alongside some of my very favorite artists, Amos Kennedy and Amber Heaton to name a few. You can order your very own copy here: Buy Parallax 6

June 2018

Roswell Artist In Residence

For the next year I will be a fellow at the Roswell Artist in Residence (RAiR) program. The program calls this a gift of time, and it feels so necesary right now. So many ideas to work on in the studio and never enough time. It is time to draw draw draw!

April 2018

Is There a Mother in the House?

Some drawings have made their way to Chicago for the exhibition Is There a Mother in the House? at the Woman Made Gallery. More info at Woman Made Gallery.

September 2017

Children’s Museum of Art: Bridge Project

This Fall I will be creating a new unique installation for CMA ‘s Bridge Project. More details to follow as the project develops.

May 2017

Space + Time Artist Residency

I am pleased to announce that this May-July I will be in residence At Guttenberg Arts for the Space and Time Residency. STAR provides artists with stipends to cover materials, travel and access to a professionally equipped workspace for the visual arts including printmaking and ceramics. Artists work is supported with a group show at the end of the residency and three studio visits with arts professionals. Each artist will present a public lecture on their work or conduct a free public workshop towards the close of their three month residency.

http://www.guttenbergarts.org/starprogram

February 2017

Women artists take on the world at Main Street Arts

The bulk of art history is a testament to what man makes of his experience in this strange mortal coil. But Main Street Art’s current exhibit, “Trying to Understand the World,” reveals two examples of the female gaze — one is a literal look at the sights of the city, and one is storytelling based in metaphor.

Check out the full review!

January 2017

BRIC: 2017 Media Arts Fellows

BRIC is pleased to announce the 12 artists who have been selected to receive the 2017 Media Arts Fellowship, an award which makes BRIC’s state-of-the-art media facilities and training programs available to professional Brooklyn-affiliated visual artists who have an interest in furthering their practice through multimedia and technology. This year’s application process saw a record number of exceptional applicants with a variety of backgrounds vying for the Fellowship, which is awarded from January – December 2017. Those artists selected to receive the 2017 Media Arts Fellowship include: Shay Arick, Jesse Chun, David Colosi, Heidi Lau, Daniel Lichtman, Dain Mergenthaler, Anne Muntges, Nora Rodriguez, Farideh Sakhaeifar, Marco Scozzaro, Bradly Dever Treadaway, and Ellen (Jing) Xu.

Trying to Understand the World: Anne Muntges and Sylvia Taylor

Drawings and prints by two artists who aim to understand their surroundings, the world, and humanity. Through humor, exploration, and meticulous mark-making, both artists present engaging and contemplative work.

Exhibition Dates: January 14–February 17, 2017

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November 2016

ONLINE EXHIBITION SHOW #35: JULIE SPOKE SOFTLY UNDER HER LONG, SKINNY NOSE

An online exhibition in conjunction with Show #35: Julie Spoke Softly Under Her Long, Skinny Nose

Dates: Nov 3-Dec 10, 2016

Selected by Paulina Bebecka and the Field Projects Panel: Jacob Rhodes, Rachel Frank, Jason Mones, Katrina Slavik, and Bria Whitney

Featuring work by: Laura Bernstein, Claudia Bitran, Paul Brainard, David Chan, Andrew Chan, Jason Dunda, Angela Heisch, Janet Hill, Allison Hornak, Timothy Hoyt, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Junsung Kim, Kirstin Lamb, Eric Legris, Sarah Moran, Anne Muntges, Dana Robinson and Samantha Sethi.

October 2016

A nice review for my show at the Western NEw York Book art Center. Check it out!

Anne Muntges at WNYBAC

September 2016

ME, MY PEN & I

September 9th – October 7th

The Western New York Book Arts Center (WNYBAC) presents Me, My Pen and I, an exhibition by Anne Muntges, on view from September 9^th through October 7^th, 2016. An opening reception to celebrate the exhibition will be held on Friday, September 9^th from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. at 468 Washington St. in Buffalo. This event is free and open to the public. Muntges will be leading a free Edition Assistance Printing Workshop on Saturday September 10^th from 12 – 2 p.m. at WNYBAC. Pre-registration is required to participate. Click here to sign up!

The exhibition features 52 new drawings following Muntges’ transition from Buffalo to New York City. These drawings document her walks through the neighborhood and the marks left by others: graffiti and signage. Unlike Muntges’ other work, which has been an exploration of intimate interior spaces, this project is external process. Something about the city has forced her to adapt to looking beyond the space she occupies to start to find how she fit into a greater whole. Drawing is her connection to the world.

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Western New York Book Arts Center Event

May 2016

WORK FROM HOME

Alan Ruiz, Anne Muntges

MAY 24TH, 2016 – NOVEMBER 10TH, 2016

125 Maiden Lane – New York, New York

Art-in-Buildings is pleased to announce the newest exhibition in the lobby of 125 Maiden Lane: Work from Home, featuring works by Anne Muntges and Alan Ruiz. Muntges’ and Ruiz’s sculptural interventions create architectural spaces, appropriating familiar objects and materials to redefine traditional understandings of the home and office. Drawing on the diametrically opposed domestic and corporate environments, the artists create disorienting reconstructions of familiar spaces.In Muntges’ highly detailed installations, she develops spaces that both align with and challenge ideas of the home. Skewed Perspectives is an installation of furniture, objects, knickknacks, and textiles that are typically found in domestic spaces. Muntges converts each element of the installation into a cohesive, immersive drawing by enveloping the familiar objects in a sheath of hatch mark patterns. Her labor-intensive process (she draws every line in the work by hand) expands drawing into three dimensions, flattens objects into two dimensions, and conflates the physical with the imaginary. Muntges manipulates items of comfort in order to bring moments of wonder and unease into a quotidian environment.Alan Ruiz’s practice explores the ways in which the built environment reproduces and reflects structures of power. Engaging architecture as both a perceptual and political medium, his work questions the spatial dynamics between a work of art and its container. At 125 Maiden Lane, Ruiz presents a modular system of glass and aluminum units. Seemingly benign forms, they recall Modernist curtain-walls and office partitions, ubiquitous architecture within Manhattan’s Financial District. In recent years, organizations have redefined their physical identity due to a rise in decentralized labor, doing away with corner offices and cubicles in favor of “open plan” workspaces. In these spaces, glass walls have become omnipresent, heralded as promoting collaboration among employees and “bright and welcoming” interiors. Yet, for all its promise of cooperation, glass may remain an apparatus of surveillance.Anne Muntges is an artist who makes highly detailed drawings, prints, and installation art based on concepts of the home. Born in Denver and based in Brooklyn, her work has been exhibited in New York at the New York Foundation for the Arts and Lilac Museum Steamship; in Chicago at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art; in Buffalo at the Burchfield Penney Art Center; and in Knoxville as a part of the Southern Graphics Council International Conference. She received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University at Buffalo. Muntges was awarded a residency at Anchor Graphics in 2010 and at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2013, and received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artist Books in 2014. In 2015, Muntges was awarded a fellowship and artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center and Ox-Bow.Alan Ruiz (b. 1984, Mexico City, Mexico) is an artist living and working in New York City. His work addresses the intersection of site-reflexivity, architectural discourse, and urban policy. He received an MFA from Yale University, a BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a 2015–2016 fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at The Queens Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Abrons Art Center, Y Gallery, Horatio Jr., The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Johannes Vogt Gallery. His writing has been featured in TDR (The Drama Review, MIT Press), InVisible Culture: an Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, and BOMB Magazine. In 2015 Ruiz was an Artist-in-Residence with the Youth Insights Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Work from Home is curated by Jennie Lamensdorf and sponsored by the Time Equities Inc. (TEI) Art-in-Buildings. TEI is committed to enriching the experience of our properties through the Art-in-Buildings Program, an innovative approach that brings contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists to non-traditional exhibition spaces in the interest of promoting artists, expanding the audience for art, and creating a more interesting environment for our building occupants, residents, and their guests.For press inquiries please contact: Nikki Buccina, QUINN | nbuccina@quinn.pr | 212.868.1900 x387http://teiartinbuildings.com/exhibitions/group/72

March 2016

PALIPMSEST CULTURE

Pleased to be be a part of the group show and portfolio exchange. Show opens March 31st, Portland Oregon.

Palimpsest Culture at Soltesz Fine Art

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ECHO ART FAIR IN NYC!

Reserve your place and see some of my drawings March 24th

SKEWED PERSPECTIVES

The Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects, titled “Skewed Perspectives,” by artist Anne Muntges. Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through its constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit. This must see exhibition experience will be onview March 2 – April 11, 2016.

Skewed Perspectives OCC

January 2016

A nice shot out from Tina Dillman on Buffalo Rising about my Show Skewed Perspectives at Big Orbit Gallery.

Top “10” Noteworthy Art Shows of 2015

December 2015

In 2013 I was fortunate to have spent time at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art as a resident. My time there was hugely influential in the work I have done over the last two years and I could not be more excited about this video they made about my time there.