Anna Moran

I am from Long Island, NY., and received my B.A. from The University of North Georgia. I have found my joy as a full-time traveling artist, selling out my last three showings between October 2017 through May 2019, and most recently being awarded 2nd place by the Beverly Hills Art Show. This has allowed me to travel the country working from my home base in Atlanta, GA. I have found that art for a minimal taste is underrepresented in art fairs due to over-saturation of the common colorful, crafty and playful pieces, thus, allowing me to fill such a large gap. Primarily, I look to bring both the materials and subject matter of my work back to a primal place. I am interested in building a work of art that I could essentially create within nature, in the wilderness with cotton, pine, mud, and my hands. I thicken my paint to create a mud-like body and texture, drawing inspiration from GodÕs creation of Adam and Eve as told in the book of Genesis and John, He uses mud to bring forth both life and sight. My work is an ongoing experiment with the female and figurative form, exploring the timeless romanticism with contour line drawings. IÕm looking to boil the form down to its essence, forming gestural figures, moving the eye from one curve to another, as artist Steve Huston states Òbeautifully and truthfully.Ó I am intrigued with classic Greaco-Roman posing within a contemporary setting and in accordance with mother nature, look to create a work of art that is, in essence, raw.