about Anne

About Anne

Anne Strasberg is a French-American painter. When you look closely at her folk art paintings, you see the stories that Anne is telling with each painting. And, there is a more conscious and complex development of subject and color than is found in Naive, Folk, or Outsider, art. She mixes her own colors. They are not the primary, straight out of the tube colors used by most self-taught painters.

Her skies have layering and depth. And, are more sophisticated than most of the artists that people compare her to. But, she is self-taught. But, it is difficult to place her in any of the categories used by critics, to separate, and define, painters.

She has most often been compared to Grandma Moses by serious patrons of the arts who have collected Anne's work, which is a great compliment. These collectors recognize the years of hard work and talent that we see in the deeply personal nature and technique in her work. Anne is a voyager, who lives and travels in the world. She paints what she sees, in different countries, as well as from her imagination. She does this in her own, personal way. But, the fact that the subjects of her paintings are very diverse, as well as the detail of her brush work, puts her outside of any of the traditional categories of Self-Taught painters, like Folk Art, Outsider, Naive-Primitive, Primitive-Modern, Intuitive, etc.

What her work shares with them, and with some great painters, like some of Picasso's work, and Chagall's, and The Douanier Rousseau, is the innocence of vision. In Folk, and other categories, this innocence is unconscious, and intuitive. In the great painters, like Picasso and Chagall, it is a conscious search for intuitive innocence. This is not meant, in any way, to compare her to these geniuses. Her work is her work. It is only meant to make the reader aware that innocence is not a lack of knowledge or understanding. But, for some artists, a conscious search for a pure, childlike, state of mind, Many artists seek to rediscover this state in themselves. And, in their work. Some, like Anne, are born with it. And, never lose it. Some folk art painters imitate, and pretend to have, innocence. Anne is neither an artist with the training, technique, and philosophy, that Picasso and Chagall, for example, have. Nor is she naive and unconscious of what she does. If we had to invent a label, other than just painter, we might say she is a reflective-intuitive. But, really, she is Anne Strasberg.

In 2012, Anne began sculpting. Strangely, her sculptures are very different in style from her painting. You can see them in the Sculpture Gallery
Anne has been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in France, the United States, Japan, Israel and Spain. Her work can be found in calendars, and Christmas cards (UNICEF). For a full list, see her biography. Her work is sold in many galleries on the Internet, and from this website. And, beginning in 2013, she exhibits in her La P'tite Galerie in New York City, by appointment only. You can call for an appointment at 917 403-4409, or Email Appointment. She also exhibits at the Galerie des Naifs et Primitifs in Paris, France. And, in exhibitions, both individual and group, throughout the world. Again, see her biography.