Anne Kraus

American, 1956–2003

Birth placeShort Hills, New Jersey, United States

Death placeBoulder, Colorado, United States

BiographyBorn: 1956, Short Hills, New Jersey. Died: 2003, Boulder, CO. Education: 1978, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. B.A., Painting; 1982, Greenwich House Pottery, New York; 1984, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, B.F.A., Ceramics. Awards: The New Jersey State Council of the Arts Award, 1988. Art: Kraus continued her love of painting, creating narrative scenes on vessels. On a single artwork there are many different images together with meticulously printed text. Together they explore stories depict man's tenuous balance between reality and the unknown, a psychological state that Kraus mined in all her work. The most recent development in her work had been large, wall-mounted tile pictures drenched in color. She kept an active dream journal as the primary source for her art.

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