Annoel Krider: The Magic of Color

Annoel Krider’s solo show, The Magic of Color, presents a thoughtfully curated body of work that showcases the depth, diversity, and evolution of the artist’s creative practice. Visit Annoel's website to learn more.

Please join us for our Summer Opening reception on Friday, May 22nd, from 4-6 PM. The Reception will be held in conjunction with the opening of Masters of Design and is free and open to the public.

Artist Bio and Statement:

I was born July 31, 1951, into an artistic family with a mother who was an Arts & Humanities Professor and a Painter, and a father who was an Architect, Historian, and Pianist.

Tapestry weaver, stick sculptor turned painter.
Studied weaving from a Mayan Indian in Cuernavaca, Mexico
The Scheur Tapestry Studio in New York City & Mary Lou Higgins, Weaver
BA Art Education

I spent well over three decades as a tapestry weaver, always loving and relating to the textural art form. Although I continued to weave, I began a process of stick and paper sculptural forms that I often combined with the weavings. These stick sculptures soon became my desired form of creating, as my tapestry weaving slowly drifted into the past.

Although one day, as I was paging through the myriad of drawing books that represented the sketches for my weavings, I realized I loved the free, loose character of the drawings that I could not achieve in the woven form….so this is when my life turned to painting using acrylics as my chosen medium.

I initially painted from my weaving sketches, but then I realized that I was missing the textural element that I’ve always had a passion for so I began applying a variety of textural papers and fabrics onto the canvases. Sometimes prior to painting. Sometimes after painting. Along with the papers, I began incorporating some of the elements that I used when creating the stick sculptures. Beads, wire, sticks, and yarn.

Art has been my life since I was a child. I would watch my mother paint and see that faraway look in her eyes as she worked and created, and I wondered where she was. I think that expression is what I now understand. It’s not so much what I am creating but what I feel and sense while creating. It’s about what I become while creating, and when I don’t become that, at the end of the day, I am lost.

Music is an essential aspect of my art. It’s not always constant what I listen to, but it does have to help send me to that place I need to be to create. Music folds around my spirit and lets my heart and mind blend, working together as the force that is responsible for my art.

I feel blessed because, as an artist, I experience, on a daily basis, that inner voice that speaks silently to me…. that connects me so securely to that universal life force. Creating is never about thinking. When I start thinking I know it’s time to stop what I’m doing. It’s all about sensing and feeling and never forcing, but allowing.

The sometimes Native American inspiration in my work is perhaps merely a result of some past life DNA influence. It was never a decision I made, a subtle force within me. No matter what I do, it seems to appear as a pattern, or color, or essence. At some powerful time in my past, I most definitely was a part of some indigenous culture. The Tribal force remains strong.

Recipient of:

The New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship

The New York Council of the Arts Sponsored Work Grant

Collections Include:

IBM, Robin Williams, Kelly McGillis, The Museum on Blue Mt. Lake, Local Adirondack Great Camps, including Dean Rhodes, Camp Limberlost, Connie and Craig Weatherup, Three Timbers, and Shapiros of Lands End