Born in New York City, Anne Troutman is former professor of architecture at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and was Chair of Environmental Art at Santa Monica College of Design Art & Architecture where she taught installation and performance art. She was a Research Scholar at UCLA Center for the Study of Women, worked at the Getty Research Institute, and has published writings on spatial culture and history. She received her B.A. in Art History from Tufts University, M.Arch. from Southern California Institute of Architecture and a M.A. in Critical Theory from UCLA. She served on the Santa Monica Arts Commission and was founding director of the Women in the Arts Program in Santa Monica. Anne began her art practice in 2007. Her work includes photo-reliefs, photo-installations, video, artist books, and literary essays and has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally over the past twenty-five years. Anne moved to Nantucket in 2014 where she continues to make and exhibit her work.
The camera has been companion, interlocutor, and friend for as long as I can remember. In addition to printing my photographs, I play with collaging elements of found photographic images (from tv, books, and other print media) to create both small and large-scale photographic constructions. These “photo-reliefs” are in varying states of 2D/3D resolve—from smooth and coincident to dissonant and misaligned. Scale is very important, as is choice of framing. Some images are very large, unframed and fill a wall - installations; some are more conventionally framed as objects, some are objects within shadowboxes or an arrangement of framed images; some evolve into environments, books, projections, videos. In all these projects, by un-stitching, re-assembling, and playing with the dimensionality of the physical image, I hope to create a sense of immediacy and to invite the viewer to enter the story of its making.
