Annie Lee African american art gallery

Annie Lee

Ever since Annie Lee took the art world by storm during her first gallery show in 1985 at the age of 50, where her artwork sold out in just four hours, Annie Lee has been a central and celebrated figure in the world of art. Her style was labeled by art commentators as "Black Americana" due to her use of scenes of everyday African American life, the animated emotion of the personalities and two-dimensional figures. Another recognizable and trademark aspect of her is art is the fact that her subjects were often faceless.

When asked about her "faceless style" Annie Lee noted the following:

She prefers to utilize body language and movement and uses this to bring her artwork to life. Annie Lee didn't want the face of the character to prevent the body language of the subject from telling the story.

Faceless characters allow Annie Lee's customers to mentally project their own faces on the subject of the people in Annie Lee's paintings.

The faceless characters will always be known as an Annie Lee trademark due to her being the first major artist to create and embrace this style. Her goal was to make sure that her artwork was unique and different and by utilizing this style Annie Lee definitely achieved that goal.

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