Trampoline:
Annie Bielski
Installation view, Trampoline: Annie Bielski, North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA. September 12 – October 26, 2025. Image courtesy Josh Schaedel.
SEPT 12 - NOV 1, 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.”
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.
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Individual Artworks