Anne Meredith Terpstra

BIO
Anne Terpstra (b. SF, 1986) is an abstract painter, printmaker and photographer based in San Francisco. Anne’s work across mediums is rooted in abstract expressionist traditions and her current work in oil painting and cyanotype is heavily influenced by her background as a printmaker, with its emphasis on process and in its use of reductive techniques. Some of her influences include expressionists: Robert Rauschenburg, Gerhard Richter and Lee Krasner.

Anne’s current work investigates painting as it relates to movement, evanescence, and subconscious process. For Anne, painting is a revolt, a kind of constant rebellion against the transitory nature of life. In looking at her work, we are struck by the immediacy of the paint, but also of a whole past life under the work. She is inspired by the tactility of the paint itself, and often starts with more paint than a palette knife or brush can comfortably hold, thereby creating a challenge which demands a physical response to the materials themselves. She states, “I’m interested in exploring how a painting originates in this way, and creating images where presence and absence are inextricably linked.” She draws much inspiration from the natural world and the California coast as...

Bachelor of Arts, 2013, San Francisco State University

Dual emphasis in Printmaking and Photography

Additional Studies in Cinema, Literature, and Exhibition Design.

Recent Exhibitions:

New Collection, Showroom Kneedler-Fauchère, San Francisco Design Center, 101 Henry Adams Street, SF, CA, 2019/ 20
Laurie Ghielmetti, Art Consultant

Group Show, Gallery 60SIX, 455A Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, November, 2018

Paintings and Cyanotypes, Gamble + Design, 85 Carl Street, San Francisco, CA, September, 2018

Blueprints, Vesuvio, 255 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, May, 2016

Passage 2, Capturing Movement, Gallery 60SIX, 66 Elgin Park, San Francisco, CA, August, 2015

21st Annual Artists Warehouse Sale, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Building A, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, 2014

Zoom, Paintings and Cyanotypes, Showing with Jenny Bloomfield, Gallery 60SIX, 66 Elgin Park, San Francisco, CA, 2012

Art Pad, Gallery 60SIX, The Phoenix Hotel, 601 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA, May, 2012

Motion, Photographs, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, CA. 2011

Annual Stillwell Shows, 17th, 18th and 19th, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA. A Juried Graduate and Undergraduate Exhibition. 2007- 2009. Awarded Silvia Walter's printmaking prize in 2007 and 2008.