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It is joy in transcendent natural environments that drives Elliott’s work. She started with floating rivers- the Delaware, the Colorado through the Grand Canyon, the Main and Middle Forks of the Salmon, the Green in Utah, and the Yukon, from the “marge of Lake Lebarge” to Eagle, Alaska, a distance of 800 miles. It was the Grand Canyon that did it. She visited the Grand Canyon three times and each time it changed her life and her art. After that, she took a major trip every summer, her backpack filled with sketchbooks and a camera. Wherever she went, that place defined her work for the next year.
Elliott has climbed 25 peaks in the Adirondacks, Wheeler Peak in New Mexico, Thunder Peak in the Palisades of California. Recently, with her daughter, she climbed to the base camp of Mt. Rainier in Washington. Abroad she has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya. She has trekked as far as base camp on Chomolhari in Bhutan and K2 in Pakistan. “The higher I go, the higher I get,” Elliott says, describing how she feels climbing mountains. During a trip through the
The titles of her paintings are like a diary of her travels.
Elliott has had one-person exhibitions at the Graham Gallery in New York, The Westmoreland, and Johnstown, and Blair Museums in Pennsylvania, The Hewlett Gallery of Carnegie-Mellon and the Center for the Arts at SUNY Purchase, among others. In New York she has shown at the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Graham Gallery, CDS Gallery, The Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, 14 Sculptors Gallery and others. Regionally, her work has appeared in group shows at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, The Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, The New Jersey Center for Visual Arts in Summit, School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, the Robeson Gallery at Penn State, the Pittsburgh Plan for Art, and The Ellarslie Museum of Trenton. Two years ago she had a two-person show, “Domestic Expectations and Upheavals” at the Arts Council of Princeton. Last year she received the Groenendahl Award, at the “Annual Art Exhibition”, Phillips Mill Association, New Hope, PA. Her work was selected as one of twenty-five best investments by the art critic, John Gruen in an article in Working Woman Magazine.Anne Elliott has taught at The College of New Jersey. While living in Pennsylvania, she received a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a Certificate in Electronic Design from Pratt New York.
See her Resume for selected reviews, articles and catalogs.