Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.

Bielski works across acrylic, oil, wax crayon, and colored pencil, and frequently incorporates Flashe— a deeply matte and vibrant paint often used in outdoor projects and stage scenery. This theatrical medium lends a material immediacy to her paintings, grounding them in physical gesture and production while subtly referencing the artist’s background in performance. Many of Bielski’s smaller works are rooted in personal memories—titles like 4:35PM evoke the emotional haze of late- afternoon, while Come here and Rated R suggest intimate invitations and moments of interiority.

Originally from Toledo, OH, Bielski received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She now lives and works in New York’s Catskill Mountains region.Drawing many inspirations together, interior and external, the body of work in Trampoline: Annie Bielski visualizes the fluctuating energies of human experience.

Annie Bielski (b. 1990 received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Exhibitions include RAW FOOTAGE, SEPTEMBER (Kinderhook, NY) Agita, Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, NY); Strong Winds May Exist, SEPTEMBER (Hudson, NY); Loveland, SEPTEMBER (Hudson, NY); NADA (New York, NY); Bluets, Burning in Water (New York, NY); The Hardest Part is Just Gettin’ Here, Paris London Hong Kong (Chicago, IL); only to find, High Tide (Philadelphia, PA); a rose is a rose is a cave, Motel (Brooklyn, NY); Alongside:: D,A,K,A, Lodos, (Mexico City, Mexico); PICA’S TBA:16 with Dan Bunny/Bunnybrains, The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, OR); Strutting, Fretting, UB Art Galleries at The University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY); among others. Bielski has performed at SEPTEMBER, The Museum of Modern Art, Coustof Waxman, Allen & Eldridge, Rachel Uffner Gallery, CANADA, and elsewhere. She was the Artist in Residence at Basilica Back Gallery in 2018, and participated in 1-844-NOT-Z00M ARCHIVES, Vol. 2, at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020. She has collaborated with the University at Buffalo and FORT MAKERS to create limited edition objects and prints, and has released three zines independently. Bielski has collaborated with musician Jenny Hval, performed across the US and Europe, and contributed album art and music video visuals to Hval’s 2022 album, Classic Objects. She has interviewed numerous artists for The Creative Independent, and is a contributor to the monograph Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Comic Relief. Bielski’s work, performances, and writing have been covered by Art News, Hyperallergic, MTV, The New York Times, among others. Bielski has taught at The University of New Mexico, SUNY Buffalo, and The State University of New York at Albany, and currently lives and works in Upstate New York.

Trampoline:
Annie Bielski

SEPT 12 - OCT 26, 2025

Annie Bielski

North Loop West is delighted to present Trampoline: Annie Bielski, a solo exhibition of work by NY- based artist Annie Bielski, opening September 12 in Los Angeles. The show—Bielski’s LA debut— features an array of painterly, energetic works created over the past three years, a time of emergence from the Covid-19 pandemic and a period of increasing creative connection and possibility. Trampoline: Annie Bielski will be on view at 508 Chung King Road through October 26.

Annie Bielski’s paintings emphasize the dynamic physicality of her practice. Working intuitively, she stains, scrapes, and layers varying materials onto raw canvases—sometimes the length of her arm- span—to create buoyant, expressive compositions that pulse with intense color. Through built-up surfaces, diverse textures, and gestural brushwork, Bielski builds forms that linger at the threshold of abstraction and representation. Painter’s Trampoline glows with tendrils of deep blue that rise buoyantly through a ripe yellow color field, conveying a sense of the artist’s own bodily movement. Gaps in the cool blue overpainting of Undertow reveal overlapping lines inscribed in paint and crayon that evoke fluid currents of thought beneath a placid surface, creating a sense of flow through the work. Her figures, simultaneously amorphous and familiar, are alive with ambiguity. The forms in one work might conjure, in Bielski’s words, “those wind-powered things, a creature, figure, jester, bug, or plant stretching out,” and in another, “an organ, boxing glove, and Olive Oyl’s hair.”

Installation Images

Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.

Individual Artworks

Annie Bieski, DIAL UP, 2024, acrylic, Flashe paint, graphite, charcoal, wax crayon on canvas, 66 x 54 in.
Annie Bielski, Painter's Trampoline, 2025, acrylic, Flashe paint, wax crayon on canvas, 33 x 30 in.
Annie Bielski, Blue Rose, 2025, acrylic, Flashe paint, wax crayon, pencil on canvas, 33 x 30 in.
Annie Bielski, Undertow, 2025, acrylic, Flashe paint, wax crayon on canvas, 54 x 66 in.
Annie Bielski, Evening, 2025, oil on panel, 12 x 10 in.
Annie Bielski, 4:35PM, 2025, oil on panel, 10 x 8 in.
Annie Bielski, Promenade, 2025, oil on panel, 10 x 8 in.
Annie Bielski, Cliff’s edge, oil on panel, 10 × 8 in.
Annie Bielski, Nocturne, 2025, oil on panel, 12 x 10 in.
Annie Bielski, Party Foul, 2025, oil on panel, 12 x 10 in.
Annie Bielski, soulmates, oil on panel, 10 × 8 in.
Annie Bielski, Lamp (Red Blue Cartoon), 2025, acrylic on silk, shade 6 1/2 x 12 x 7 1/2 in.
Annie Bielski, Lamp (Blue Cheetah), 2025, acrylic on silk, 6 1/2 x 12 x 7 1/2 in. shade
Annie Bielski, Rated R, 2025, oil on panel, 12 x 10 in.
Annie Bielski, Zampano, 2025, acrylic, Flashe paint, wax crayon, pencil on paper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Annie Bielski, Rockefeller, 2025
Acrylic, Flashe paint, wax crayon, pencil on paper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Annie Bielski, Eclipse, 2025, acrylic, Flashe paint, wax crayon, pencil on paper, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. unframed.
Annie Bielski, Party I, 2022, acrylic, wax crayon, marker on Arches cotton paper, 16 x 12 in. unframed.
Annie Bielski, Party II, 2022, acrylic, wax crayon, marker on Arches cotton paper, 16 x 12 in. unframed.
Annie Bielski, Apartment, 2024, acrylic, wax crayon on black paper, 10 x 8 in. unframed.
Annie Bielski, Possessions, 2025, acrylic, Flashe paint, wax crayon, colored pencil on canvas, 28 x 24 in.