Annie Sailer

I am a visual artist and modern dancer / choreographer. Painting and dancing have always been essential parts of my life, informing each other while remaining separate practices and providing me with a sense of self and enormous joy. I was born in Princeton, New Jersey on April 11, 1951 and grew up in Washington, DC.
My paintings, and found-object installations are grounded in a Post-Abstract Expressionist / Minimalist aesthetic. They are informed by the materials themselves, color and spatial relationships, emotional and spiritual realms of the human condition, popular culture, fashion, and by my process itself. Most of my work is completely abstract while my figurative and portrait paintings refer to issues of identity and archetypal human drama. As director of Annie Sailer Dance Company I create the costume and set designs for my choreography which reflect my paintings and installations.
Artists influencing my work include Willem de Kooning, John Chamberlain, Richard Tuttle, Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Cecily Brown, Jessica Stockholder, Katherine Bernhardt, Marlene Dumas, and Sarah Sze.
My paintings are also influenced by my biological father George Sears Greene who was an Abstract Expressionist p...

2007 - M.A., Studio Art, Painting, New York University, New York, NY

1982 - M.A. Dance / Choreography, George Washington University, Washington DC

1974 - B.F.A., Painting, Webster College, St. Louis, MO

ANNIE SAILER: GROUP PAINTING EXHIBITIONS

Erector Square, Weekend,
City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT, 2014 & 2013

New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, Ct, 2014

VIBRANT, Perspectives Gallery, Whitney Center, Hamden, CT

"THE SUBMISSIONS SHOW", Sarah Bowen Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 2007

MA Thesis Exhibition, 80 Washington, Square East Galleries, New York, NY, 2006

100 Broadway Exhibition Program, Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts, New York, NY 2006

"29th small works", 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY, 2006

"Some Williamsburg Neighbors", ART 101, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 2005

"two site-specific installations", Fine Arts Building, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 2001

ANNIE SAILER: SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITIONS

Lobby Showcase Gallery East, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, Queens, NY, 2004

The Front Gallery, Laramie, WY, 1999

The Semple-Upham House, Mount Vernon, OH, 1994

Greene and Greene Gallery, New Hope, PA, 1991