Ann Schaumburger

"I am always testing new color relationships. Seeing what happens at the edges when two colors meet gives me great pleasure.
 
I use the bare-bones structure of a house as scaffolding for my color investigations. The house form is at once iconic and open-ended. The primitive nature of the shape allows me to use it abstractly, breaking up color by working in blocks of four.  I choose four colors that I think will be active, then put them together and see what happens. I play with variation in the amount, repetition, and placement of color to see their effects. I am always solving an aesthetic problem with my color choices.
 
Although the house remains a constant in my work, I play with it over time. I recently learned that Henry David Thoreau’s family purchased a house only to put it on wheels and move it from one part of Concord, Massachusetts to another. So now I have put my own houses on wheels. The idea of taking a solid house, attached to the ground, and letting it roll away seems both comical and deeply suggestive of our times."

Ann Schaumburger received her Bachelor of Science degree from Skidmore College and a Master's in Art Education from New York University, NYC.  Her work has been exhibited internationally, including 19 solo shows, and is in the collections of The Hillwood Art Museum, LI University; The Museum of the City of New York; New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority - Arts for Transit, among others.  

Ann Schaumburger lives and works in New York City.