Ann Froeschle is a lifetime Alaskan living in Ketchikan since 2007. She majored in Studio Art at the University of Puget Sound with a focus in painting, and received her Master’s Degree in Secondary Education in Art from University of Alaska Southeast. While working first for the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council, then for Ketchikan Museums, she has continued to paint as well as explore the creation of wearable art and other mediums. She participates in local art exhibit opportunities, and had a solo show at the Main Street Gallery in 2014 titled “The Middle of Nowhere.”
Her work is primarily realistic/surrealistic oil paintings on canvas in tight detail and rich colors. Through industrial landscapes and open spaces, she explores the conversation between the human urge to understand and contain- to measure, capture and logically break down- and the infinite complexity of the world around us, which is outside our grasp, unquantifiable, and beyond us: the Other. This interaction is also vividly experienced in the act of painting as the universe outside is taken in through all the tools of logic and understanding and mapped onto the canvas surface. The works acknowledge this conversation that is human consciousness with fluctuation between fully realized illusions of depth and compositions that flatten, contained in squares. In captured clouds, natural forces interacting with manmade structures, or anonymous horizons in a specific instant we explore intent and response, understanding and mystery and the interaction of creation.
Creations by Ann Froeschle 