By
Ann Flemings
Piece description from the artist
Aqua, yellow and ochre pallette. Stong muted white shapes on the lower right quadrant. A stacking of very structured blocks moving up the canvas. Much of my work is about seeking light. In this piece, block images are stacked upon each other creating a structural image that seeks to rise up and out, like a mountain during a sunrise. The muted colors enhance the intensity of bright yellow/teal, resulting in a pleasing tension between light and dark. For me, I see a person struggling to break free from the structures that hold them, maybe a spiritual quest to move beyond their current limitations.
Ann Flemings is a contemporary abstract painter based in Austin, Texas. Her studio is located at the Canopy complex in Austin, where she participates in Open Canopy events on the first Saturday of every month, opening her working studio to the public.
She began painting at age seven with her grandmother, sparking a lifelong passion. She went on to earn a BFA in graphic design and an MA in Sociology.
Solo shows include Threads of Her Story, through May 2025, a response to the permanent collection of the Neill-Cochran House Museum in Austin, TX; Artist in Residence at FiG Design Showroom in 2024 and Flemings Florals at ArtDirect in 2023.
Juried group exhibitions include the Canopy Collective at Austin Affordable Art Fair (2024 and 2025), Here Now at Canopy Gallery (2023), InBetween at Cloud Tree Gallery (2022), The Femme Abstract at Springdale Gallery (2021) and Celebrating Women Artists at Alaris Gallery in Kansas City, MO (2020).
She received an Honorable Mention for her piece, Give My Heart a Listen, at the Round Rock Arts Big Show in 2024. Her piece Coming through to the Other Side was featured in the January 2024 “New This Week Collection” on Saatchi.com. Transfigured Edge of Awareness won 3rd Place for “Best in Show” at the Expression through Abstraction exhibit at 620 Gallery in 2020.
Ann’s work appears in the corporate collection of McCarthy Tétrault Law Office in Calgary, CA and private collections across the U.S. She is represented by Artworks Gallery, Austin, TX and ArtDirect Gallery, Cedar Park, TX.
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