Anne Grgich

Anne Grgich is essentially a self-taught artist. She has filled countless notebooks with poetry and sketches or ‘doodles' since her childhood. These books have a long and circuitous evolution into her present fabulously dense collage paintings and painted books.

Grgich paints sharply peculiar yet forcefully compelling human faces. Her images have a pure visionary nature. From the underground punk scene of Portland in the 1980's, to the new, uncertain realities of the 21st century, Annie has simply created through it all. Her work has been featured in Galleries, Museums, and art fairs since the early 1990's.

Anne Grgich is one of the most original and innovative of the group of American artists known as Outsiders. Completely self-taught and the cover story of Raw Vision Magazine (#22, 1998 "The Books of Anne Grgich") she became known for her one-of-a-kind books filled with page after page of impassioned expressionistic faces and figures. Anne's old found books are transformed into masterpieces. Grgich often employs collage and vigorously applies layer after layer of over painting, covering found texts and images, yet allowing some of the underneath to remain visible. This layering suggests generations of mystery and mystique to her exotic character.

Learn more about Anne and her art at www.annegrgich.com.

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