“Drawing is the archetype and architecture of my life.”

Annie Mann suggest ordinary living things breathe, they live, they die. Hers is a practice of being in time, with all its contradictions and attempts at codifying, organizing, arranging, and systematizing what is, what might be, and ultimately what leaves no trace. Her works on paper are intricately woven pen drawings that do not depict extreme realism but suggest it. They are not a representation of the image but a blue print of what is passing away and what remains. Her art is in the wrapping and unwrapping through the process of seeing and drawing it out. She is drawing the ephemeral.

Mann received her BFA from Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She trained with supportive teachers in ceramics: Malcolm McClain, John Mason, and Peter Voulkos, pioneers of the early California clay movement; and she was mentored by conceptual artists John Baldessari and Mary Kelly who helped her appreciate her epiphanies and fastidious instincts.The Los Angeles based artist has spent three decades exhibiting and curating exhibitions in galleries, and museums including the Brand Library Art Center in Glendale, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles MOCA. For several decades she has been teaching drawing, art history, and ceramics in colleges and universities including Glendale Community College, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, and the University of Southern California USC. She lectures on Art History and Contemporary Art, Figure Drawing, and the Drawing process.

CV/Resume

Education

1998     University of California, Los Angeles
             Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art

1993     Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design
             Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art

Teaching Experience

2013-present
Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA
Adjunct Faculty

  • Art 150: Drawing I — Basic drawing course dealing with the fundamentals of pictorial organization. The various means of representing the three-dimensional aspects of forms on a flat surface are emphasized.

  • Art 152: Life Drawing I & II — Beginning course in drawing the figure from life. Quick drawings, as well as progressively longer drawings are done to explore the relationship of movement to form. Emphasis is placed on personal expression and interpretation as well as on proportion and structure. Special studies in artistic anatomy are also developed. Advance Life Drawing II furthers the student in the development of his/her personal voice using the fundamentals of the human form.

2008-present
Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles, CA
Adjunct Faculty

  • 102 Survey of Art History II — A survey of the major visual arts of the Western world from the Early Renaissance to the present, linking art and architecture with social, economic, political and religious aspects of western and global cultures.

  • 201 Drawing — Instruction is given on how to observe form, space and light with still life arrangements. Fundamentals of drawing techniques with various drawing materials.

  • 202 Drawing II — Advanced Drawing; matters of context, form, scale, materiality & light.

2014-2017
Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles, CA
Adjunct Faculty

  • Drawing I — Basic drawing course dealing with the fundamentals of pictorial organization. The various means of representing the three-dimensional aspects of forms on a flat surface are emphasized.

  • Introduction to Painting 300 — Introductory course covering the basic skills and techniques in oil, acrylic and watercolor. Emphasis on expressive composition with problems in landscape, still-life, and the human form.

2013
Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
Adjunct Faculty

  • Art 164A-1: Figure Drawing II — Advanced study of the human form enabling students to develop observation and drawing techniques in relation to real space.

2007
Bridges to Success: 21st Century College Program

  • Program offering courses for college credit to students from Watts in middle school through 11th grade through the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools funded by the Irvine Foundation.

  • Organized student exhibition

  • Taught Art, English, & Mathematics

2005-2010
McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA
Art Instructor

  • Drawing — Fundamentals of drawing; perspective, composition, & figure field.

  • Mixed Media— Fundamentals of collage. Ceramics. Fundamentals of ceramics; wheel throwing, glazing techniques, & various firing processes.

2003-2007
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Adjunct Faculty

  • Fundamentals of Design Communications (Architecture 105) — Perspective, composition, context and figure/field drawing for architecture students.

1996
Beverly Hills Adult School, Beverly Hills, CA
Instructor

  • Ceramics I and II — Fundamentals of Ceramics; wheel throwing, glazing techniques, & various firing processing.

1993-1994
City of Whittier, CA
Instructor 

  • Life Drawing — Fundamentals of anatomy, proportion, perception, and Perspective.

Curatorial & More 

2022
Practicing Eternity, L34, Los Angeles, CA
Curator, Exhibitor

2014
SCULPTING IN TIME, Five Los Angeles Female Sculptors Working In Clay.
Curator

  • The Art Gallery at Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA

  • Group show including: Tanya Batura, Krysten Cunningham, Julia Haft-Candell, Emily Sudd, Kim Tucker.

2006 to 2009
McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA
Administrator, Curator

  • Hired visual arts instructors to teach classes for adults and children

  • Oversaw the success of all visual arts classes taught at the Center;

  • Reported to the Board of Directors

  • Developed curricula and set the artistic vision for the Center as a whole

1999 to 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Educator

  • Provided interactive educational tours designed to engage the viewer more fully with the artists’ works

  • Created tour “scripts” and lesson plans from source materials, collaborating with visiting artists when possible

  • Guided visiting dignitaries through special events for exhibition, At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture

  • Developed drawing workshop to be given through MOCA Education Department

1997 to 1998
Molly Barnes Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Assistant Curator

  • Assisted with exhibition design and installation

  • Assisted with art sales, interfaced with client and artists

  • Provided general administrative support

1995 to 1998
University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching Assistant

  • Assisted professors Adrian Saxe and John Mason in undergraduate art classes, including ceramics and drawing

  • Critiqued student artwork

1996-1997
Wight Art Gallery, UCLA
Teaching Assistant/Archivist

  • Assisted Mary Kelly, Chair of Department of Art, with a course focusing on psychoanalysis in the field of vision

  • Installed Women and Work at the Emily Carr Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

  • Catalogued Professor Kelly’s textual and literary work

1993-1995
Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Culver City, CA
Instructor – Adult Art Center

  • Headed Department in Painting & Drawing

  • Directed Ceramics Department

  • Worked with schizophrenic and autistic adults

  • Organized art exhibitions/fundraisers for students at Warner Brothers & New York galleries.

1989 to 1990
Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Curator

  • Selected artist work

  • Assisted with exhibition design and installation

  • Coordinated exhibition openings and invitations

Selected Exhibitions

2024
* I Just Let Art Kill Me, Works on paper, Pop Hop Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA

2024
* Collection of New Works on paper. Civil, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA

2023
* Wrench, Works on paper. L34, Group, Los Angeles, CA

2022
Practicing Eternity, Two Woman show. Works on paper, Ceramics. L34, Group. Los Angeles, CA

2014
2014 BRAND 42: Works on paper; Celebrate; Curated by Jack Rutberg, Glendale, CA

2013
* 2013 Kamikaze Exhibits, Thirty-one solo or group exhibits, Draw Light, POST, Los Angeles, CA

2012
* Collection of New Works by Annie Mann, South Pasadena Mercantile Co., Pasadena, CA

2010
* Things in Themselves, Holy Redeemer Convent, La Cañada, CA

2009
* Irises, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA

2008
Day of the Dead Exhibition, Pico House, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Faculty Show, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA

2003
Staff Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2003
* Pencils, Sprout Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001
* Paintings, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier, CA

2000
* Kites & Self Portraits, Café Metropol, Los Angeles, CA

2000
Open Studio, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998
M.F. A. Show, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 

1997
Group Show, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993
Juried Exhibition, Long Beach Community College, Long Beach, CA 

1992
Two-Women Show, Bolsky Gallery, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

(* solo shows marked by asterisk)

Awards and Honors

1997
Recipient Dean's Grant by Dean of Graduate Students
University of Los Angeles

Lectures and Panels

2006
Art History and Contemporary Art
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2006
The Figure
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA