The art of Anne Marie Grgich, in her first solo exhibition in New York, is on display at Van Der Plas Gallery. With over seventy-five pieces, this show brings to light a culmination of a lifetime of work and exploration.

Having begun making art at a very young age, Anne Marie was catapulted into creating full-time after suffering a traumatic brain injury from a car accident after which she began taking solace in her recovery through drawing and writing in books. Forays into college began and developed as she perfected new techniques layered far beyond the expected “traditional” approach. It was not long before the individual nature of her work was seen as an Outsider aesthetic, signature, and truly original. Within this genre of iconoclastic artists, Anne Marie has garnered much notice and found much acclaim.

Images large and small, overlapping and interacting, map out scenes of an independent world of beauty brought to life through the eyes and by the hands of a most talented artist. Through different sized canvases displaying warm tones and dark tones at times mimicking the palette and sensibility of a time past reinvented for a new light, Anne Marie Grgich shows the viewer not only what is unexpected but what, at times, is unimagined.