Bio
Anne Bullock is a multi-media artist who works from her Dancing Wind Studio in Southeastern Washington State. She works in a variety of media; however, clay is her grounding medium. Bullock identifies with abstract expressionists and appreciates works from Kandinsky to DeKooning. She has a wide range of interests, but is specifically influenced by both Japanese and American Indian aesthetic traditions.

She grew up on Colorado’s Western Slope, but has lived in Washington State for the past 30 years. After 12 years as an elementary teacher, she pursued advanced study in Teaching and Teacher Education with special emphasis in Art Education and Research at the University of Arizona (1988-1992). She assisted with in-service for the Discipline-Based Art Education program at a J. Paul Getty Institute in 1989. More recently she taught ceramics and ceramic sculpture at Walla Walla Community College and Walla Walla College.

Characteristically, Bullock’s works are responses to world and personal events: these explorations might be in any media—clay, acrylic, paper, wood, drawing, pastel, or mixed media.  Her work is about connection—piecing together, juxtaposing concepts, and melding parts to evoke ideas. 

Statement
New ideas come about with new materials.  I explore all sorts of media and select a medium based on what it is I am working to express.  It is always difficult to describe my work.  I’m never at a loss for words; it is more a matter of trying to explain the type of work I do—the variety and scope of my work is broad and ever changing. The concept, a response, and feelings are some of the criteria I use to select what medium best serves the expression.  I am a curious person, and I find a great deal of satisfaction in exploring a variety of materials and processes.

Figure study has played a more recent and prominent role in my work.  Capturing forms and proportions greatly impacts my shaping and building in clay as well as my compositional work in paintings.  Clay most definitely is my “grounding” medium; the material is marvelously dynamic and its versatility endless.  For instance, I have a ceramic sculpture in a Portland exhibition titled “The Pacifist Potential,“ I am working to turn a wood base for a ceramic funerary urn, and soon another display of the River of Soul Vessels will emerge.  I am forever being “stretched” by external influence if I am not working to satisfy my own curiosity and compulsion to create.

Please visit www.abullock.com to learn more about my studio and processes. 

Contact
Anne Bullock
Dancing Wind Studio
509.520.8443
www.abullock.com
anne@abullock.com

Events
Potential for Pacifism
Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla | March '08
Originating from Portland’s Blackfish Gallery and Artist Christopher Shotola-Hardt. Exhibition features peace themed works by national and international artists
Anne Bullock, Curator

Regional Pastel Invitational
Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla | April '08
Group Show with Anne Bullock, Bonnie Griffith, Leslie Cain, Cheryl Cosner and others

Colorworks at Wenaha Gallery, Dayton, WA | May 24-June 15, '08

Raku Series available at:
Pendleton Center for the Arts |
Pendleton, Oregon
541/278-9201

Links
Allied Arts Association of Richland | www.alliedartsrichland.org

Pendleton Center for the Arts | www.pendletonarts.org

Carnegie Art Center | www.carnegieart.com

Blackfish Gallery | www.blackfish.com

"Male on Green Linen"
charcoal, paper, 23” x 18”