Grace Ann Cummings

I tell people I paint God’s mistake which I know is controversial whether you are deeply religious or the opposite such as atheist. Yet my work is not about religion or atheism.
My art evolved from a paranormal moment I had in 1995 when I was told: "God is Forgiven" I did not immediately understand that phrase and spent several decades discerning its meaning which is about trauma associated with the inescapable relationship that our mortality has with innocence. Our birth is not the intent of death, but it necessarily creates our personal annihilation. This personal destiny leaves each of us vulnerable to condemning our connection with innocent others who “created us to die” without our permission. In the darkest depths of awareness this personal destiny entitles us autonomy to choose if we want to live or not. Thus, our “error” is our ownership of blame for mortality which is not the power over death; it is our power over cruelty.

MY ART

I use the ancient form of 2-D art to represent TIME as broken yet continuing motion that has a front side and a hidden backside. The front and back are separate-yet-connected parts of the canvas like friction in musical compositions that enable individual pitches & rhythms to carry the m...

I did not attend a formal art school because my art evolved from a paranormal experience I had where I was told "God is Forgiven" accompanied by studies of art in individual classes and my college degree in classical music.

Open Theme, Finalist, September-October, Art Collide 2025

Answer as Question, July 23-August31, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA 2025

Artist Showcase, April 18-August 10, Lawrence Kahn Law Group P.S., Tukwila, WA 2025

Around the Square, March 6-29, Studio 103, Seattle 2025

Paint the World, December 5-29, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2024

Red Dot Miami, December 4-8 World Wide Art, Miami, FL. 2024

Art San Diego, November 1-3, World Wide Art Booth 607, San Diego, CA 2024

GraceANN Cummings: Solo Exhibition for 'Show Walls' July 2-August 31, Gary Manuel Salon, Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, 2024

Congratulations! Member Show, July 15-28, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 2024

Art Expo New York, WorldWideArt-Artivita, April 4, Pier 36 New York City, NY 2024

GraceANN Cummings: Featured Artist at West Seattle Artwalk, July 1-31, West Seattle Junction Association & West Seattle Arts Council, West Seattle 2023

Re-Imagine, July 1-31, CoCA Members Show, Seattle 2023

Time, June 1-August 1, Exhibizone, Ontario, Canada 2023

Expo Metro, June-July 2023, Barcelona, Spain 2023

Bower Center’s Paper Art National Juried Exhibition, July 6-August 20, Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford VA 2022

Layers of Tim...