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Michigan VRBO

Ann Toebbe
  • $85.00

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SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

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SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

Add Custom Frame

SHIPPING FOR FRAMES ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN U.S.

Toebbe's process is labor intensive. She employs freehand painting, flat geometry, geometric abstraction and intricate patterning that require numerous preparatory drawings and extensive planning. An important part of her work is the play with flatness and multiple points of view—each work can simultaneously have inside and outside views, views from above, and objects and figures portrayed from a straight-on view. Toebbe’s working method draws inspiration from American folk art, Indian miniatures, and 16th Century Mughal paintings. Folk art often embraces stylization and eschews perspective. Mughal painting utilizes compartmentalization as a compositional device, as its origin was to inventory the King's court. In June 2019, Toebbe's solo exhibition Friends and Rentals included collage paintings that depict interiors and domestic settings pulled from the social media posts of the artist's friends and family in Ohio and Kentucky, as well as rental properties (Michigan VRBO) she has vacationed in with her husband and children. Ryan Steadman notes in the catalogue essay "In this way, Toebbe exerts the control she has—control over her picture plane—in order to better organize the lives of her family and friends via images of their homes and belongings.”

Michigan VRBO is packed with visual Easter eggs—a chicken in the bottom right hand corner, a fruit basket in the kitchen, model ships anchored on a bureau—that (hot tip!) are even more enjoyable in larger sizes, should you be seeking a statement piece. Those elements also have a lot of personality, a sense that this is not just a place but someone’s place. There’s some distance in this image, the viewer hovering far enough away to take it all in, but there’s also intimacy. The unfixed point of view has a further humanizing effect. The homes in Toebbe’s Friends and Rentals series are complicated, enigmatic, and perfectly imperfect. They’re portraits of places, but they’re also portraits of people by proxy ... Read more on the blog!

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
+ Directly supports the artist
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

Museo Portfolio Rag

Edition Structure:
8"x8" | edition of 10
11"x11" | edition of 100
16"x16" | edition of 25
24"x24" | edition of 10

Artist - Ann Toebbe

Ann Toebbe

Born in 1974 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ann Toebbe received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1997. She earned an MFA in painting from Yale University in 2004 and a DAAD Scholarship to the Universität der Kunst, Berlin in 2004-05. She has been the recipient of numerous grants including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 2005 and 2015, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, 2015, and a Chicago Dcase Grant, 2017 and IL Council for the Arts Grant, 2018. In 2017 Toebbe was AiR at The Pilchuck School of Glass. Her work has been shown at The MCA Chicago, The Elmhurst Art Museum, and The Fralin Museum of Art and galleries including Monya Rowe, NY and Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles. In 2019 Toebbe had solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy, NY where she is represented and in the gallery at The Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.

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