Artist Spotlight: Anne Vieux is Making the Invisible Visible
Artist Anne Vieux transforms holographic paper into vibrant and hypnotic immersive digital paintings. We got to chat with Vieux about her intricate artistic process which incorporates both digital and traditional mediums.
Anne Vieux’s artwork for Color :: Field ~gleam~ is available for purchase exclusively on SuperRare and can be purchased here.
You’re the only artist in this exhibition creating art by merging traditional and digital mediums. Could you tell us how you discovered your very unique style of creating?
I’ve always worked back and forth from software and physical paint. There is a dissonance in that process that comes into harmony when I work into each individual piece.
In your work, you have this ability to transform light and color and make them feel fluid, tactile, and 3 dimensional. Could you please tell us a little more about your process?
Pushing the limits of the image data through zooming, warping, and drawing in software, my scanned images of holographic paper are processed into a highly personal language of painting. The topography of the scanned paper and acrylic lines vibrate between flat and dimensional. High saturation of color and repeated organic forms evoke imagery associated with the narcotic and the feminine. Gesture is approached as fluid and dimensional.
What first came to mind when you were told the theme of the exhibition? Did you feel like your work fit right in?
In consideration of historic color field painting, gestural application and surface through the mediums of light and pixels was the first thought I had about the theme. I was thinking of surfaces and gestures in a colorfield on an infinite loop. Emphasis on sensation and perception are evident in the personal painterly language that expands throughout my practice. I explore making overlooked transitory or peripheral moments, in hopes to make the invisible- visible.
Your artworks are very vibrant and psychedelic. How do you choose what colors to work with and how does that influence the rest of your work or process when creating?
I want to say that my approach to color is intuitive but each piece has its own specific vibe. The spatial shifts and original scan image influence me as I develop a composition, but color is a really heady topic. There are colors that we culturally classify as “artificial,” that can be found in the extremes of nature IE the depths of the sea or in other extreme environments. I enjoy playing with the concept of the “natural artificial.”
Is it more liberating to work with color in digital? Do you feel like new technologies allow you to manipulate color in ways that would be impossible to do with traditional mediums like painting?
The limitations of mediums really define an aesthetic. I enjoy combining them to distort or undermine the mediums inherent limitations
How can color change in the digital space vs the physical world?
The magic of the illuminated color of a screen is an undeniable difference between the two. Color on a screen feels infinatue and mutable where in the physical it can feel static. There is a lot of potential in both for me.
Do you see color as a quintessential part of your artistic practice?
Color is a material to me but is super fluid and can create something entirely new. Every generation has a unique relationship to color sensibilities and relation to material flow. I hope I adapt and shift in the future, but my perception of these things in my life is inherently interwoven in my practice.
~gleam~, on view at our Color :: Field exhibition, can be purchased here.
Anne Vieux is an American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her painting-based practice extends into sculpture, video, artist books, NFTs and site installations. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Vieux's work is included in public collections including, Newcomb Art Museum, MoMa Library, The Met Library, and numerous university libraries.