About the Artist
"I celebrate the mysteries of Nature in my art -
the fleeting light on the landscape, the unimaginable diversity,
the beauty of each leaf and flower."
Ann Trusty is a third-generation artist whose work embodies the natural world. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, France and Turkey in both museum and gallery exhibitions, and has received favorable reviews by the New York Times. With John Hulsey, she publishes the educational website, The Artist's Road. (www.theartistsroad.net)
She studied fine art at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; the Kansas City Art Institute; & the University of Kansas. In 1980 she moved to Garrison, NY, and opened her studio in the former train station overlooking the Hudson River where she continued to develop and show her work for ten years.
She has exhibited her work in one and two-person exhibitions at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Fine Art, St. Joseph, MO; the Louise Jones Brown Gallery at Duke University; the Westchester Gallery at the State University of NY, White Plains; the Hemisphere Club, Rockefeller Center, NY; and the Alice and Hamilton Fish Library Gallery, Garrison, NY.
Her work has been included in juried and group exhibitions of the American Women Artists; the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NY; the Museum of San Diego History; the Islamic Arts Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; the Turkish American Society, Ankara, Turkey; the Union des Maisons des Metiers d'Art Francais, Paris; the Musee de l'Impression sur Etoffes, Mulhouse; the Musee-Chateau d'Annecy, Annecy; the Musee des Beaux Arts, Angers; the Galerie des Tanneurs, Tours. She is a Signature Member of the American Women Artists.
Trusty's art has received the American Artist Professional League Award; Merit Awards from Richeson 75; the Merit Award from the American Craft Awards, NY; and has been featured in many publications, including Gakken Art Books, Tokyo; Lark Books; International Artist Magazine; and Artists Magazine.
Her painted fiber work was reviewed by the New York Times (Patricia Malarcher, Sunday, June 14th, 1992) , "The distinctive character of Ms. Trusty's work lies in her fresh, energetic compositions . . . she creates abstract color fields enlivened by scraps of cloth that dance, fly and dynamically explode across the surfaces."
Her current compositions in oil and watercolor are explorations of nature through paintings of her gardens. The garden, for her, is a metaphor for the larger natural world, where universal themes can be explored through observation and expression in painting.
