Ann Erpino Fine Art

My paintings celebrate the beauty and power of nature, and the interconnectedness of all that exists. I’m as inspired by trees, animals, rocks, and flowers, as by nature’s ability to continually remix everything in cycles of growth, change, decay, and renewal.

I delved into my imagination, into dreaming, physics, languages, nature, and travel. Childhood musings around atoms and solar systems became adult musings around black holes, quark production, neurophysiology, and other hidden phenomena. My current project is a video series portraying similarities and entanglements between particle dynamics and life processes such as self assembly, neurobiology, computation, and dreaming.

Nature

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'Flow' is a state in which one is hyperaware of one's surroundings, of the feel of a texture or breeze on the skin, of a warmth or chill on the shoulders, of scents and sounds, and of known or imagined pleasures or dangers. When immersed in a seamless integration of sensing and acting, with all attention on the task at hand, time is irrelevant, self-consciousness and self evaluations are absent, one can sense being part of the world, and rapture is possible.
Animals
Dreams
Three Muses At Work - print on canvas
People
Quantum Cosmos
There's a world outside, and a world inside, be it your home or your heart.
Zeitgeist
The Winfree Series
oil on masonite
Ruins
  • 'Flow' is a state in which one is hyperaware of one's surroundings, of the feel of a texture or breeze on the skin, of a warmth or chill on the shoulders, of scents and sounds, and of known or imagined pleasures or dangers. When immersed in a seamless integration of sensing and acting, with all attention on the task at hand, time is irrelevant, self-consciousness and self evaluations are absent, one can sense being part of the world, and rapture is possible.
    Zephyr’s Drum
  • Our aqueous bodies respond to forces such as breezes, the moon's pull, electrical currents, and other nearby signals. When we lead diverse lives from those of our neighbors, family, and friends, though we may live near each other, we lack the steady conditions of a common environment, diet, occupation, cause, mood, and so on. Had we those primal conditions in common, the bulk of our humors might wave or ripple or flow as the humors of one being. Perhaps we'd experience a human murmuration.
    Coma – One Blood
  • The ability to see objects' properties independently of their surroundings, such as recognizing parallel lines among a series of near-parallel lines, may be a function of the corpus callosum. This painting hung on a gallery wall in a dream.
    Field Independent Vision
  • Classic Rose - print on canvas, 18x24
    Classic Rose
  • In a lucid dream this tree fern was modeling for me, changing poses with its fronds by my telepathic cue, while I memorized the poses to paint later. I cued the treefern to change its fronds into feathers. It began to do so, but just then some people entered the scene and the tree fern, protective of its magical powers, ceased its frond-to-feather mutation.
    Shy Telepathic Treefern Model
  • An invitation
    Yes, Let’s
  • Khong Lo Cave - oil on masonite, 30" x 40"
    Khong Lo Cave
  • Grounded, and Yet - print available
    Grounded, and Yet
  • As sea levels rose, amphibians were among the first to perish en masse.
    Amphibia
  • Outsider - print on canvas, 18x39
    Outsider
  • During a thunderstorm, rain fell so hard onto touchably close banana leaves outside the open window, that large raindrops bounced into the room almost horizontally.
    Thunder – A Reverie
  • Crucible - print on canvas, 36x26
    Crucible
  • Still Life with Mantises - oil on masonite, 16x32
    Still Life with Mantises
  • Listen - print on canvas, 30x40
    Listen
  • Calla Lillies - oil on masonite, 24x16
    Calla Lillies
  • Dry Bones
  • Howling at the Moon
  • The Joker - print on canvas, 30x40
    The Joker
  • Six Dancers
  • In this dream the water was amazingly clear.
    Dream Island
  • Curfew
  • Limbic - print on canvas, 20x16
    Limbic
  • Passage
  • Twilight - print on canvas
    Twilight
  • When people are stressed and depressed about their jobs, home lives and general lack of freedom and leisure, they can sometimes seem to be living partial deaths. Future beings could evolve into more humane societies that foster joy, meaningful contribution, arts, and personal development.
    The Day Nobody Died
  • Mike reentered his math class to find that during his absence the other students and teacher had decorated the classroom with pictures of the white bird, which had long disturbed him.
    Solve For X, Mike
  • Echoes – Communion Mass consists of webs of vibrations, with smaller particles enveloped by larger particles, each layer providing an energetic substrate for the next larger layer. The wave nature of matter is perceived differently by observers of different scale and sensory apparatus.
    Echoes – Communion
  • In a dream I had brought several items and small animals back from Bolivia. After most of them had rolled or scampered off into the landscape, an egg remained and was starting to hatch. One each of many different bird species had come, as if emissaries, to witness the emergence of this new species of bird.
    The Newling
  • In deep, dreamless sleep we're completely unconscious of any feelings, thoughts or emotions, or of our surroundings. This calm time away from body and mind, while mentally and emotionally protective, also renders us most physically unguarded and vulnerable.
    Theta Waves
  • Majesty - The Call - print on canvas, 22x25
    Majesty – The Call
  • In a dream a hole had been cut into the ceiling of my studio - a grave that opened to the outside, as if I were underground. Friends and family dropped earth and flowers into the grave, not seeming to notice my studio below.
    Studio Burial
  • During insomnia an area of my mind churned for hours, then stayed awake and conscious while another part fell asleep enough to begin dreaming. In there, flashes of light and colorful swirls coalesced into random representational forms. The forms dissipated into swirling colors and flashes, then formed again into other random objects such as a tree, a cat, a flower, and a chair.
    Flower of a Half Dream
  • We walked through these ruins looking for a comfortable place to sit and visit.
    Nutmegger
  • Smoke From Nowhere
  • When a seafaring molecule is suddenly ripped apart by a great force, such as that present in a bursting bubble, an opportunity arises for the newly exposed molecular fragments and 'tails' to rebuild and repair themselves. At such a moment of restructuring, a mutation may have occurred which led to more complex molecular units becoming life or providing a basis for life. Dr. Bernard Yurke theorizes that just such an occurrence may have beget life on Earth.
    An Inevitable Miracle
  • Self assembly exists seemingly everywhere, from dust bunnies to molecules to solar systems. Life also seems to occur just about anywhere conditions permit.
    Harmony – A Creation Myth
  • Crucible - print on canvas, 36x26
    Crucible
  • Illusion - print on canvas, 30x40
    Illusion
  • Everything must eventually become something else. As life ends in death, so does death bring new life.
    Breathe
  • oil on canvas - 16" x 20"
    Contact
  • Restitution - oil on masonite, 30x24
    Restitution
  • Orchids - oil on masonite, 13x13
    Orchids
  • Above and Below - oil on plywood, 23 x 32
    Above and Below
  • Poppy
  • watercolor
    Ode to Paul
  • Grace - print on canvas, 24x18
    Grace
  • From Antonio (Canaletto) Canale's original painting.
    Canaletto’s Allegorical Tomb of Lord Somers
  • This painting was inspired by a scene in Luis Bunuel's film of the same name.
    Los Olvidados
  • Michelle’s Garden
  • Death of a Clown - oil on canvas, 9x12
    Death of a Clown
  • Wednesday - oil on masonite, 20x24
    Wednesday
  • Painting Anecia - oil on masonite, 22x24
    Painting Anecia
  • Monkey Temple at Midnight - oil on canvas, 24x18
    Monkey Temple at Midnight
  • Creativity and imagination generally occur in the right side of the brain, which controls the left side of the body. Artist, poets, dreamers and other right-brain-dominant people can easily feel stranded and unsupported in our left-brain-dominant culture.
    The Left Hand Path
  • In this nurturing and dangerous world, accidents of birth, resources, geology, climate, and other factors determine whether we flourish or wither, live or die.
    Allele Pool
  • There's a world outside, and a world inside, be it your home or your heart.
    Dueling Shrouds
  • Oracle of Scourge - acrylic on canvas, 12x36
    Dueling Shrouds
  • Give and Take - print on canvas, 24x48
    Give and Take
  • Torn - oil on canvas, 24x18
    Torn
  • Corpus Callosum
  • oil on canvas - 4' x 3'
    Threshold
  • To find one's essence, one integrates harmoniously with the people and environment around them. They can then know their individual place within that larger essence.
    Tantric Alchemy
  • Red and Aloe - oil on masonite, 48x24
    Red and Aloe
  • Trees - print on canvas
    Trees
  • oil on masonite
    Generation
  • Exeunt
  • Portrait of Remedios Varo
  • Parable
  • Dream’s End
  • Orphan’s Sanctuary
  • Wednesday
  • Ishi, the Last Yahi
  • The Thinker
  • Reign of Terror
  • Act One
  • The Little Sorcerer - oil on masonite
    What you might find.
  • In a dream, the world had become so crowded that many people had no space in which to move around. When the tide went out they moved about on the beach, going about their business, enjoying that part of their lives. When the tide came in they moved uphill, back into the town, and again there was standing room only.
    The Low Tide Dwellers
  • Monkey Temple II
  • Bolivia - oil on canvas panel, 16 x 20
    Bolivia
  • Sillustani
    Sillustani
  • Still Life with Feathers - oil on masonite, 26x13
    Still Life with Feathers
  • Loom - oil on masonite, 48x24
    Loom
  • oil on masonite
    Call and Response
  • Crystal Nebula
  • Vision - oil on masonite, 11x22
    A fleeting vision
  • Pompeii Dreaming
  • Mimosa
  • Promises to Keep
  • Groups who traditionally rival each other sometimes unite to protect themselves from a common oppressor.
    Sedition
  • This painting is dedicated to Mumia Abu Jamal. It's featured in Long Distance Revolutionary, by Street Legal Cinema.
    Stolen Lives

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