Anne Ehrlich
I (a.k.a. Mineral Annie) am an artist, illustrator, and building designer living in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to my freelance career, I worked as a designer in architecture and interior design firms in Vancouver, San Francisco, and Toronto.
I graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Architecture degree (2011), and hold a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouver (2006).
Artist's Statement
My current painted work is a series of small landscapes and still lives that I imagine as plates torn out of an unknown illustrated travel journal. The paintings are an imaginary record of a return journey to a familiar landscape and set of found objects. I am interested in how these constructed encounters with an uncanny environment might remind a person of a place — maybe it sparks a memory an actual physical place they have visited, or perhaps it recalls an element from a stream of social media imagery — a manufactured memory. I see the paintings, and painting in general, as very small gestures of resistance — small rocks or resting places in a rushing river of images — even as they erode and inevitably become part of that river.
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Selected Clients
Central Coast Regional District
Bella Coola Music Festival
Group Exhibitions & Fairs
2020
The Shape of Content: Art from Afar
Off the Cost, Online
2019
Bella Coola Valley Arts Council Arts & Crafts Fair
2012
RE Place / RE Quest, Gendai Gallery, Toronto
2010
In-course exhibitions at Larry Wayne Richards Gallery, University of Toronto
In-course exhibitions at Eric Arthur Gallery,
University of Toronto
2007
A Refurnished Study, Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver
2006
Kickstart the Art, Gaoler's Mews, Vancouver
Diminutive Disposition, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
Graduation Exhibition, Emily Carr University
2005
Two Yokels, Two Locals and a guy from Portland, Antisocial Gallery, Vancouver