“I don’t know why I did not become a visual artist, because my favorite thing to do in kindergarten was finger-painting. I also love making collages and still do. I always looked forward to doing magazine layout in my journalism class in high school. I put these graphic skills to use while making calendars for Club 57. But, I got side tracked with performing. Every now and then I create an actual art object, but never really set my mind to it as a discipline until Shari Elf and Randy Polumbo of the ART QUEEN gallery in Joshua Tree asked me to create 30 pieces of art in 30 days. I like doing conceptual sculptural pieces and was certainly inspired by Joshua Tree Junk-Dada artist Noah Purifoy. The pieces that were shown at ART QUEEN utilized found objects discovered in local thrift stores, swap meets and just garbage I collected on our property in Joshua Tree. And of course I had some of my fake Jean Michel Basquiats which I started doing back in the 1980s. I have a lot of pieces currently in progress and hope to have another show at ART QUEEN in the future.”
You can see all of Ann’s art from the ART QUEEN show on her Facebook page.Click here to view.
Read about Ann’s fake Basquiat paintings at DANGEROUS MINDS.