On Papermaking: “I enjoy the tactile quality that goes along with thinking with my hands, over many years, papermaking has allowed me to fulfill my creative needs. I use hand-made paper as the substrate in my painting and printmaking practice. As an artist, I like to experiment; pushing the perception of what “paper” can be. For example, I may make paper that has the look (and feel) of woven fabric or use it as a sculptural medium. But in whatever form it takes, paper’s strength and delicacy seems to me to express a commonality of the resilience and fragility of life.”

Anne Q McKeown’s interest lies in existential curiosity and explorations of her life experience. She is and always has been an observer, a seeker of knowledge. She thinks about activities she observes, and writings she intakes to try to understand how events fit together. As with Paul Gauguin, she wonders, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? She translates these questions into manipulated forms that address her observations.

Strong intuition guides her in making her work. The manifestation of her thinking incorporates understanding of method, material, and explanations that come as she touches the earth. She allows the work to take her where it will. Thoughts, scenes in memory, deeply felt experience guide her decision making to communicate an inner world of human emotion, conviction, and spiritual recognition.

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Center for Visual Arts Gallery at Brookdale Community College, “Line/Language”, Lincroft, NJ​
2019 Gallery Aferro, “Folding the Line”, Newark, NJ​​​
2015 ​Gallery Aferro, “Access Denied” Newark, NJ
2015 ​Rutgers University Art Library, Prints New Brunswick, NJ
2014​The Gateway Project, Prologue-Epilogue “Take 2” Newark NJ
2014 ​Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Off the Wall “Take” Jersey City, NJ
2014​SOHO20 CHELSEA, “Getting in Front of Flow” New York, NY
2014​Printmaking Center of New Jersey, “Strange Truth” Branchburg, NJ
2013​85 Market Street, “Revisiting Large Scale Prints and Drawings” Newark, NJ
2011 ​SOHO20 CHELSEA, “Eleven Thousand Nights” New York, NY
2010​University of Dallas, “Anne Q McKeown Prints” Irving TX
2010 ​Mason Gross Galleries, “detsiwt” Brodsky Center Annual Exhibition, New Brunswick, NJ
2009​SOHO20 CHELSEA, “twists of fate” New York, NY
2008 ​SOHO20 CHELSEA, “with out, the shelter of his love” New York, NY
2007 ​Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters, “Paper Works” New Brunswick, NJ
2005 ​55 Mercer Gallery, “Disruptive Pattern”, New York, NY
2003 ​Lamia Ink! at Gallerie 141, Nagoya, Japan
1997 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
1995 ​Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
1992​Case Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1990 ​Landmark Gallery, Stamford, CT
1989 ​PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT

International Group Exhibitions

2017​Artist Print Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, Paper and Print Portfolio
2012​Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, “Coming of Age: 21 Years of Artist Proof Studio”
2007​Art Forum JARFO, Kyoto, Japan
2007​Hall of Awa, Yamakawa, Tokushima, Japan
2005 Lamia Ink! at Art Forum JARFO, “Together – Again,” Kyoto, Japan
2004​Lamia Ink! at Art Forum JARFO, “Together,” Kyoto, Japan
2004​Fish/Le Poisson, Mail Art, Liege, Belgium
2003​Lamia Ink! at Gallery Higashi, Kami Gori, Japan
2002​4th International Lithographic Symposium, Tidaholm, Sweden
2001 Centro de Arte, “Encuentro Cuba/Canada” Holguin, Cuba
1999​Lamia Ink! at Gallery Brocken, Art Bridge Exhibition, Musashi Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
1975​K.A.A. Gallery, “Art and Language” Toronto, Canada

Go to Anne’s website for her full resume.