Annie Lee-Zimerle

Annie Lee Art Gallery Info. Ever since taking 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.

• Welcome to the world of my imagination. It is filled with neighborhoods of Victorian Houses, whimsical gardens, and enchanted creatures. Tea time is whenever and wherever you choose.
• Annie Lee, Actress: Live Fast, Die Young. Annie Lee was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She first got the acting bug at the age of 9 and studied at UCLA's Young Performer's Workshop. During high school she worked to pursue the medical field, but fate let her back to entertainment and she was scouted to do some modeling, print work, runway, commercials, and music videos.
• Although Annie Lee is gone and there's no new art from her, I still cherish the beauty in her work. Time and again, these calendars bring a smile to the face of the recipient and to me as the giver. 5.0 out of 5 stars The prints.

Academic Degrees

• MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Profile

Annie Lee-Zimerle is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in printmaking, painting and drawing. Interested in transferring her thoughts into tangible forms, she began to draw. Her work is often narrative based and a reflection of her thoughts on domesticity and the mundaneness of culture. Her research results in prints, book arts, and paintings that explore the act of moving from one culture or language to another, cast against a corresponding, more inexorable move from childhood to adulthood.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and galleries and is in numerous private and public collections, including the Dayton Metro Library in Dayton, Ohio, Harold Washington Public Library in Chicago and the Joan Flash Artists’ Book Collection in Chicago, IL.

What Is Annie About

Annie Lee-Zimerle has held solo exhibitions at Springfield Museum of Art, Kent State University, and Paper Circle Southeast Ohio’s Center for Paper and Book Arts, among other locations. She recently was an artist in residence at Cleveland Institute of Art and at the Studios at MASS MoCA. She was also featured on The Art Show on PBS.