2009 American Places and Spaces, Group Exhibition, Water Street Gallery
2008 Nature Interpreted, Group Exhibition, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Art in Embassies program collection, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
2008 Sky & Water, Group Exhibition, Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI
2007 Jon Stryker private collection, Kalamazoo, MI
2006 Two-Person Exhibition, Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
2006 Northwest Michigan Regional Exhibition, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City
2004 First Place, 24th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI
2004 One-Person Exhibition, Michigan Artists Gallery, Suttons Bay, MI
2002 One-Person Exhibition, Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
2002 One-Person Exhibition, Lake Street Studios, Glen Arbor, MI
2001 Honorable Mention, International Society of Experimental Artists, Dennos Museum Center
2001 Honorable Mention: Oils & Acrylics, A Juried Show, Traverse Area Arts Council
2001 Group Exhibition, Landscapes of Community, Dennos Museum Center
2000 Group Exhibition, Seven, Parallel Arts Gallery, Northport, MI
2000 Landscapes of Community, Group Exhibition, Dennos Museum Center
1998 Second Place: All-Media Show, Traverse Area Arts Council
1996 First Place: All-Media Show, Traverse Area Arts Council
1996 Regional Exhibition, Dennos Museum Center, Juror: MaryAnn Wilkinson, Detroit Institute of Arts
ANGELA SAXON - ARTIST STATEMENT
Perceiving Nature
My work is an exploration of nature—my attempt to describe the natural world. I am making paintings, and so my work is about paint: not skies and water, trees and clouds. A natural deconstruction of imagery takes place in the rendering, a break with the literal. By allowing the medium to emerge—flowing marks, moving paint, surface textures— I am approaching an interpretation of the sublime in nature.
I begin my paintings direct from the landscape, focusing on expressive movements in nature—the
sweep of a hill, the patterns in water, the drama of a sky. The paintings explore the way in which we
perceive nature, leading a viewer to discover intimate details in a landscape that might otherwise be
missed, yielding a sense awareness.