Anne Strasberg is a French-American painter. When you look closely at her 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, and has been collected by serious patrons of the arts, which is a great compliment. These collectors recognize the personal nature and technique in her work. With her personal view and manner of expression. The fact that she 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 this diverse, also takes 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 great painters, a very 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. 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.

Anne has been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in France, the United States, Japan, Israel and Spain. She began painting in 1980. She has also been an interior decorator, designing and painting murals in a children's hospital in Paris. And, in restaurants and homes. She makes dolls and dollhouses. Her paintings have been used for calendars, and Christmas cards (UNICEF). For a full list, see her biography. Her work is sold in many galleries on the Internet, aside from her own website, www.annestrasberg.com. And, she exhibits in her Studio in New York, at the Galerie des Naifs et Primitifs in Paris, France, and Gina Gallery, in Tel Aviv, Israel. And, in special exhibitions throughout the world. Again, see her biography.