Annie Bielski, Painter’s Trampoline, 2025, acrylic, flashe, wax crayon on canvas, 33 x 30 in.
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. Drawing on her own observations and abstracted emotions, the body of work in Trampoline: Annie Bielski captures 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 announce 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 paintings, works on paper, and painted silk lampshades. Trampoline: Annie Bielski will be on view at 508 Chung King Road through October 26. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Friday, Sept. 12 from 6-9pm!
Annie Bielski’s paintings emphasize the dynamic physicality of her practice. Working intuitively, she stains, scrapes, and layers varying materials onto canvas—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. 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.”