Abstraction is alive and well in the paintings of Anne Riethmaier. She continues to celebrate and indulge in being playful with her emphasis on"Colour as Subject". The geometric shapes and stripes tie her compositions together and often you are teased with optical illusions that show an understanding through experience.Colour, by the way it is presented in her work, is very seductive and deceptive. Exploration with the glass like resin enhances the colour considerably and inbues a sense of reality of surface and depth in the work. Riethmaier's paintings demonstrtae how the ordinary can be extraordinary.
Anne Riethmaier completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland in 1992 and her Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington on 2008. She has work in many private collections in New Zealand and abroard. Anne continues to work professionally, exhibiting regularly.
Anne has created 6 energetic, small scale variations of her abstract paintings in a circular format for this event. They are vibrant, often geometric with layered colours and compositions, some being densely complex with hard-edged patterns interwoven and contrastine in layers that overlap and weave together. They can be hung individually or in a set of teo or more.
