Artist Biography | Faith Ann Gilbert
Artist Biography | Faith Ann Gilbert
Artist Biography
Artist Biography | Faith Ann Gilbert
Faith Ann Gilbert is an American painter born and raised in Battle Creek Michigan; she is primarily based in Chicago and Colorado. Themes commonly explored in her work include multiple expressions of abstraction shown through material exploration and experimentation. There tends to be a battle, or a conflict between darkness and light, surface and depth and movement and sediment brought about by layers of paint from high texture to glass like atmospheric and fluid surfaces with risk being a quest of extreme importance. Every piece is a unique conclusion of the endless exploration of themes and processes developed in her everyday studio work.
Faith pursued a professional dance career before entering college in the late nineties. At an early age Faith was drawing and dancing; she seemed to be the only artist in a family full of athletes. She had expressed frequently throughout her life, “I will either be an artist, or a dancer, or both.” During and after high school Faith pursued her passion for dance, teaching at the local dance studio and briefly performing professionally with a traveling troop out of Las Vegas, which took her to various destinations including The World’s Fair outside of Osaka Japan.
Faith received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 and studied under prestigious artist professors: Judith Geichman, Frank Piatek, Roxie Tremonto, Marion Kryczka, Karl Wirsum and Candida Alvarez. While attending SAIC Faith fullfilled an artist residency at the Three Arts Club of Chicago; she received numerous awards for her work in college. Faith was accepted to the highly competitive Advanced Painting Studio Program at “The School”, where she had her own studio along side twenty studio mates.
After graduation in 2004, Faith developed an exciting and dynamic body of work expanding on and continuing with her progression throughout her college years. Her studio base was in the Printer’s Row neighbourhood of the South Loop of Chicago from 2004 – 2015 until she and her husband moved their studios to the Pikes Peak area of Colorado. Throughout this time Faith has shown often in galleries and alternative spaces and continues to push beyond with an intensity and a passion that keeps her collectors and fans waiting with anticipation to see what she comes up with next.
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