Anna VanMatre

Critics have described Anna VanMatre’s works as “symphonies of blackness, gray and light” and a significant step in “liberating” the drawing idiom. Many of her paintings (some large as 20 feet in height) utilize the potential of paper to be rolled, unrolled, torn, folded, and cut – not confining the paper to a life sentence behind glass. Red Sea from Open recently shown in the context of “Inside Ed” group exhibition at Broadway Gallery unites sea and sky in perhaps the most expansive of all her nature-based themes. By focusing on the lack of boundaries between water and air and their endless upward and downward reach, the viewer is asked to reconsider all self constructed barriers.