ARTIST STATEMENT
Annette-Marie O’Donnell is an intuitive and visionary artist primarily working in abstract expressionism. As an intuitive and visionary artist, she connects to the creative energy field to intuit the lines, colors, and shapes for her pieces. She is interested in ambiguous or quasi-recognizable subjects and hopes that their pieces encourage curiosity in the viewers.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Annette-Marie O’Donnell is a Chicago artist educator. She has shown in group shows in the Midwest from 2013 to the present and was an artist in residence at Charmers’ Greenview Gallery in 2017 and St. Gertrude Monastery in 2026, and had a solo show at Gallery 901 in Evanston, IL in the fall of 2021. After a career as a teacher in the Chicagoland area, she now teaches pre-service teachers at Northeastern Illinois University and is a doctoral student with the American College of Education. As an educator her objective is to nurture the creative spirit that resides in us all and encourage her students to follow their creative impulses.
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