Artist Statement
Anne Feller’s art is an examination of memory. The act of remembering and the involuntary manifestation of forgetting appear side by side in her work. Each piece thus balances both the desire to preserve the memory in its entirety while simultaneously revealing the unreliability of the memory itself. Feller’s primary medium is encaustic as the material offers a uniquely resilient durability. In the unchanging space of the wax, each piece contains layered drawn moments. Once embedded, the viewer is offered a chance to peer through layers of history. Like fossils trapped in sediment, the act of preservation within each piece becomes a moment of permanence in a world of impermanence. This is reflective of her own concerns of memory, time, and ultimately the mortality of the people, the moment, and the memory depicted.
About
Anne Feller is a figurative encaustic artist who works with themes of memory. She is based out of Boulder, Colorado where in 2021 she attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a 2021 recipient of the Emerging Artist Grant from International Encaustic Artists. In July 2022, Feller opened her first solo exhibition The Tip of the Tongue at Artworks Center for Contemporary Art. She published her essay “Fossilization of Memories” in the Fall 2022 edition of Wax Fusion, a magazine featuring contemporary encaustic artists. Feller concluded the year as a selected artist in Athena Project’s Artful Reflections, a program that aims to uplift women artists through thoughtful discourse and community engagement. The following year in 2023, Feller was selected to exhibit her work internationally at Mulranny Arts for Ephemeral/Ephemera in Mulranny, Ireland. Later the same year, Feller’s piece Till I See You Again won Best of Show at D’Art Gallery in downtown Denver for Spot On #4. Feller’s second solo exhibition, LIMINAL, opened at the Tointon Gallery in May, 2024.
