Graceann Warn, American, born 1955, was raised in New Jersey.  In 1978 she graduated with a degree in landscape architecture. Later, while pursuing a Master's in Landscape Architecture at the University of Michigan and working as a landscape architect, she made the decision to devote her life to making art.  She has been a full time studio artist since 1985 with work exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.  She lives in in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband Geoff.

In the last ten years she has returned to painting using oils and encaustic. The present work reflects the structural logic of her architectural beginnnings as well as her abiding interest in archeology. The paintings are comprised of multiple layers of encaustic and paper creating a sense of depth. Surfaces are distressed, drawn upon and marked not unlike the ancient walls that inspire her. 

"I paint and I construct.  Both my paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation.  My formal education in landscape architecture and classical archaeology provides structure to artistic flights of fancy that always seem to revolve around some form of revelation" -Graceann Warn

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