AnnMarie Young is a 24-year-old artist currently living in Anchorage, Alaska pursuing a career as a full-time painter. She graduated in May, 2021 from The University of Texas at Austin with her BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in painting.

AnnMarie’s subject matter and technical skills are constantly progressing. In her first year of painting classes she quickly found herself drawn to landscape work. After becoming trained with oil paints, many of her first landscape paintings reimagined West Texas and Arizona scenes in a style that reflected Neo-impressionist and Fauvist movements. Most recently AnnMarie’s work is connected to her travels and experiences made within them.

AnnMarie has shown work in the Western gallery, the Visual Arts Center on UT campus, East Austin Studio Tours, Zilker’s Art in the Park, and even had a solo showcase of her work at Lamppost Coffee in Round Rock, TX. Starting her freshman year at UT she was an intern for ArtStartArt, an online arts marketplace platform, for over a year and a half where she was able to develop commercial skills needed to be a self-supporting artist. She was also a top selling student on the site, selling more than 40 works to collectors around the country. She has also been able to successfully sell original pieces to collectors worldwide in Iceland, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and France.

In July 2020 she attended a month long artist’s residency program in a remote village of Northern Iceland where she painted 52 unique, watercolor postcards of Icelandic landscapes.

Upon graduating in 2021, she continued her postcard project in Alaska. She lived in a log cabin during the summer and fell in love with Alaska way of life. She bought a converted van in 2022 to drive from Texas to Alaska and live in during the warmer months. Once it got too cold to sleep in a van, she decided to establish a more permanent residence in Alaska and currently resides in Anchorage.

In the future, AnnMarie’s goals include more art related travel, expanding her social media presence, and holding her own exhibition or show.

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