Anne Lilly’s watercolors and paintings incorporate many of the same strategies that were found in her signature kinetic sculpture: geometry, repetition, precision, and finely-resolved details that reward close looking. Similar intentions are pursued as well: to fuse together the opposing qualities of hardness and softness, and to awaken perception of space and emptiness. Moving from sculpture to works on paper, what was shed in spatial richness and drama is exchanged for subtlety, color, spontaneity, and the illusion of light. In 2019 Lilly received an MCC fellowship; she was an MIT artist in residence in 2014, an artist-in-residence at the Art Institute of Boston in 2012, and in 2011 she was awarded the Blanche E. Colman award. Her work was included in the 2007 DeCordova Museum Annual Exhibition, has been collected by the Jewish Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and is held in corporate and private collections internationally. She has taught extensively, including at RISD, Suffolk University, and Boston College.
