photo of artist's living room
ANNE DEON
--Biography--
For more than 20 years, Anne Deon has been a fixture within the art scenes of New York and Los Angeles. Known for her vividly colored large-scale oil paintings of iconic and archetypal figures, she has enjoyed recognition on both sides of the country.
In the late 1970s, after completing art school, she joined the movement of
artists who were at the center of the emerging punk rock-art rock scene in
downtown Manhattan. There, she participated in several group shows, exhibiting
her oil paintings as well as Super 8 film projects. At this time, she also
achieved recognition as a Performance Artist, appearing in a wide range of
downtown Manhattan clubs, galleries and artists lofts.
As art and music intermingled in the early 1980s New York scene--spawning bands
such as Blondie, the Ramones and Patti Smith--Anne joined The Alan Vega Band, an
avant-garde art band that had a large cult following among intellectuals,
artists and rebels, especially in Europe. During most of the 1980s, she recorded
for Elektra Records and toured extensively in Europe with the Alan Vega Band. At
the same time, she began working in earnest on her ongoing Heroes, Outlaws,
Angels & Rebels painting series.
Since moving to Los Angeles in the late 1980s, Anne has moved into increasingly
conceptual work. In addition to her large-scale abstracts, she continues to add
to her ongoing Impolites and Heroes, Outlaws, Angels and
Rebels series . But the most current series capturing Ms. Deon’s focus
and creative energy now is the Anne Deon DeLeonibus Ancestors and Ghost
series. It is this series which is currently being exhibited in the Los
Angeles galleries. She has been featured in several Art exhibitions throughout
Southern California, including the New Millennium Armory Show at the David
Geffen Center for APLA, a show she also curated. She is currently working on a
new series of mixed media panels entitled Love & Death
Anne Deon was born and raised in New York City. She attended Richmond College,
an affiliate of the City University of New York, where she graduated with a
B.F.A.
TV EXPOSURE: Deon’s paintings have been featured on the network TV shows:
ER, KING OF QUEENS, VERONICA’S CLOSET.Art Exhibitions in Los Angeles and Manhattan
Santa Monica Airport Hangar GalleryUrbanArtbyDesign Gallery, Los Angeles (currently set for April, 2005)
Create-Fixate. Feb. 2005:
www.createfixate.comDon O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles
Lacy Primitive & Fine Art gallery
The New Millenium Armory Show at the David Geffen Center for APLA
Charles Aidicoff Screening Room at William Morris Agency BH
British Lime Gallery (the Artists' Village in Santa Ana)
Holly Matter Gallery
Desmond Gallery
Hartog Fine Art Gallery
The KITCHEN
Project of Living Artists
QUANDO
Times Square Show
Tony Shafrazzi Gallery
Neo Persona Gallery
Anne Deon, Artist www.annedeon.com 310 880 3942
Among the varied collectors of Ms. Deon's art are:
Richard Seaver, Chairman of the Los Angeles Opera. The Seaver family has been a friend and generous benefactor to the arts in California as well as to Pepperdine University. Mr. Seaver has been on the Board of Directors of Cal. Arts, and is a well respected member of the community.
David Maurer, of the Maurer Family Foundation, a foundation which supports the arts in various capacities, most recently at the Norton Simon Museum, and the Getty in Los Angeles. Gilbert and Anne Maurer have a gallery in the Whitney Musuem of American Art named for them in honor of their patronage.
Jeff de Joseph, Vice Chairman of Doremus Public Relations and Advertising Agency in NYC
Alan Vega, sculptor and avante garde musician, he is presently working on a monumental light sculpture to stand in front of the Cartier Foundation in Paris.
The Warner Bros. Television Drama: ER, has two of Ms. Deon's paintings enhancing one of their swing sets. As well as the TV show: King Of Queens has used 5 abstracts and the Statue of Liberty painting for a recurring set.