Ann Marie Coolick

Ann Marie is an impasto painter focusing on colorful abstractions and expressionist landscapes using only palette knives and heavy body paint straight from the tube. She slathers frosting-like paint layer upon layer onto the canvas with paint running off the edges, resulting in a sculptural, three-dimensional appearance. Her "Polka Daubs" series explores the deconstruction of color and texture into their simplest form. Ann Marie currently resides with her husband and four children Arlington, VA.

2002 BA Studio Art, Painting, Virginia Tech. First in class Summa Cum Laude. Honors program.
2003 BS Marketing Management, Virginia Tech

Museum of Broadway, Oklahoma! Mural, Times Square, NYC, 2022
Bay Hill Design, Austin, TX, 2020
ShopMadeinDC, Washington, DC, 2019
Glen Allen Arts Center, January 2019
Willow Street Gallery, "we met on Instagram" group show, June-July 2018
McLean Project for the Arts, Artfest, October 2017
Lucky 7, Curator, Covet, Arlington, VA, March 2017
The Cooley Gallery, 2017
West Annapolis Artworks, Annapolis, MD, May 2016
Little Gallery, Moneta, VA, 2015
Oberndorf Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA, August 2015
Glen Allen Arts Center, Glen Allen, VA September 2014
Capital One, Glen Allen, VA, through February 2015
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Resident Alumni Exhibition, December 2014
Hylton Center, Juried Exhibit, Manassas, VA, May- July 2014
Aurora Hills Community Center, Arlington, VA, April- July 2014
Cooley Gallery, Small Works Show, February-March 2014
Hylton Performing Arts Center, Buchanan Gallery, January 2014
Northside Social, Arlington, VA, April- June 2013
Shirlington Library, Arlington, VA, March 2013
Arlington Central Library, January 2013
Lee Center, Alexandria, VA, June 2011
Premier Gallery of Ghent, Norfolk, VA, February 2011
Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills, MD, February 2011
ArtSpace, Falls Church, VA, September 2010
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