Education
- Studied Fine Art, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara, CA
- BFA (with honors) Fashion Design, Otis/Parsons, LA, CA
Biography
With 16 years as an in-house Surface Designer, Anne M Bray utilizes digital skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to provide production ready repeats and indexed art. Her areas of specialty include: Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate, Corel Painter, Lectra U4ia, NedGraphics.
In addition, she is a visual artist with a studio practice in Mar Vista. "I create memory maps in fiber, photography, or paint."
Teaching Experience
- 2017
- Part-time Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
(Digital Fashion Design) Illustrator, Photoshop
- Part-time Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
- 2004
- Part-time Instructor, Otis Extension, LA, CA
(Digital Design For Fashion, Digital Surface Design)
- Part-time Instructor, Otis Extension, LA, CA
- 2002 – 2006
- Adjunct Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
(Digital Fashion Design)
- Adjunct Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
- 1995 – 2001
- Part-time Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
(Digital Fashion Design) Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver
- Part-time Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
- 2001 – 2002
- Part-time Faculty, Ai California Design College, LA, CA
(Digital Fashion Design) llustrator, Photoshop
- Part-time Faculty, Ai California Design College, LA, CA
Awards, Grants, Residencies
- 2023
- Scholarship: Professional Artist Accelerator Course, Professional Art Institute, online
- 2019
- Honorable Mention: Digital, Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Hills, CA
- 2014
- Indiegogo Funding Campaigns (2) for “On the Edge: US”
- 2010
- Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California
- 2007
- Painting’s Edge Residency, Idyllwild Arts Summer Program, Idyllwild, CA
- 2004
- Scholarship, Creative Capital Retreat for Otis & CalArts, Los Angeles, California
- 2001
- Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California
- Third Place: Drawing/Prints/Graphics, Fall Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills, California
- 2000
- First Place: Drawing/Prints/Graphics, Fall Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills, California
- Honorable Mention: Drawing/Prints/Graphics, Spring Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly
Hills,
California
- 1999
- First Place: Painting, Fall Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills, California
- 1998
- Beverly Hills Art League Award, Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills, California
- 1996
- Gamblin Oils Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
- Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
- 1995
- Residency, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
- Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California
- 1994
- Gallery Choice Award, “The Last Decade” Gallery 57, Fullerton, California
- 1994
- DOTY (Doll of the Year), Doll Reader, Harrisburg, PA
- 1986
- Nancy Heller Scholarship, Otis/Parsons, LA, CA
- 1974
- Best of Show: Prints, Rensselaer County Council for the Arts Festival, Troy, NY
Exhibitions
- 2018
- “Road Trip” TAG Gallery, LA, CA
- 2017
- “#mycommute” TAG Gallery, LA, CA
- 2016
- “Fashion Rainbow” TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 2015
- “Southwest Sojourn” TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 2014
- “On the Edge: US” TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 2013
- “The Commute” TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 2012
- “Pattern Recognition II” TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 2011
- “Small Pleasures” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2010
- “Road Trip” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2009
- “Pattern Recognition” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2008
- “Irwindale” TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 2007
- “Interstate 80” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2006
- “From Mar Vista” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2005
- “Ex Hortus: From the Garden” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2004
- “249 Miles: A Day on I-10, Texas” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2003
- “Digital States” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2002
- “Available Light: Paintings from the Edge of Night” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2001
- “Are We There Yet?” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 1999
- “Safari = Journey” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “Safari = Journey” Gannett Gallery, SUNY Institute of Technology Utica/Rome, Utica, New York
- 1996
- "There and Here" Gannett Gallery, SUNY Institute of Technology Utica/Rome, Utica, New York
- 1980
- "Landscapes" Anyart Contemporary Arts Center, Providence, Rhode Island
- 1976
- "Anne Bray" College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2022
- Holly Jolly 123” Roswell Space, Los Angeles, CA
- “Old Broads West” Roswell Space, Los Angeles, CA
- 2021 “Old Broads @ RAM” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (Todd Wingate, curator)
- Holly Jolly 100” Roswell Space, Los Angeles, CA
- “13th Annual Sanchez Art Center 50|50 Show”, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA (Shannon
Trimble, juror) - “Tricksters and Transformation”, Helm’s Design Center, Culver City, CA (Carol Sutton
Shaw,
juror)
- 2019
- “Captured”, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
- “small works: SDA 2019 Member Exhibition”, Gateway Campus, Webster University, St.
Louis,
MO - “Materiality & Method” Pretty Smart, Long Beach CA
- “Old Broads: Born to Be Wild” Upstairs Tasting Gallery, Middle Ridge Winery, Idyllwild CA
- Alumnae Show, Emma Willard School, Troy, New York
- “Little Old Broads” Studio C, Claremont, CA
- 2018
- “Old Broads” Riverside City College Quad Gallery, Riverside, CA (Leslie Brown, curator)
- 2017
- “All U Can Eat” Metro Gallery, Pomona, CA (Susie Eaton Thorpe, curator)
- 2016
- “#myshittycommute” SPACE Claremont, Claremont, California
- 2015
- “Stars” Claremont Community Foundation, Claremont, CA (Mary Altenburg Roy, curator)
- “All U Can Eat” Bunny Gunner, Claremont, CA
- TAG All-Member Show, TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2014
- TAG All-Member Show, TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2013
- “Photo Sensori” Milk Space, Los Angeles, California
- 2011
- “Small Works” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “Best of TAG” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2010
- “Best of TAG” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2009
- Alumnae Show, Emma Willard School, Troy, New York
- “Art for Everyone” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2008
- “Omage” Track 16, Santa Monica, California (Lisa Melandri, curator)
- 2007
- “Painting’s Edge” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California (Peter Frank, curator)
- 2006
- “Omage” Track 16, Santa Monica, California (Christopher Miles, curator)
- “Time Out” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2005
- “Home Work” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “Point of View” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2004
- “Summer Summery” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “L.A. Summer” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “40x40” Coronet Theater, Hollywood, California
- Alumnae Show, Emma Willard School, Troy, New York
- “2004 Juried Open” Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, California (Michael Zakian, juror)
- “Genesis” TAG, Santa Monica, California (curator)
- 2003
- “Gift Wrapped” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “Representational Show” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “It’s a Ten” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “Small Valentines” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2002
- “The Wild Life” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- “Food for Thought” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2001
- “Salute to Los Angeles” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 2000
- "2000 Juried All Media Exhibition" Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California
- 1999
- "Southern California Open Regional Exhibition" VIVA Gallery, Northridge, California (Scott Canty, juror)
- "Inland Exhibition XXXV" San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, California (Mary-Kay Lombino, juror)
- "Igniting the Edge, Forging New Geographies, Categories & Identities" LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California (Terri Cohn, juror)
- Alumnae Show, Emma Willard School, Troy, New York
- 1998
- "Nude/Naked, An Examination of the Human Form" Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, Illinois (John Lustig + John Spomar, jurors)
- "Color Sensations" TAG, Santa Monica, California
- "Wallworks" LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California (Noel Korten, juror)
- "Nourishment for the Soul" Impact Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Nina Freudenheim, juror)
- 1997
- “Artists’ Choice” TAG, Santa Monica, California
- 1996
- “Gallery 825 1996 Open” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California (Peter Frank, juror)
- "Le Petit IV" Alder Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
- "Lay of the Land" Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, Cypress, California
- "Le Petit III" Alder Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
- 1995
- "California Dreaming" The Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, California (Philip Linhares, juror)
- "Terra Firma/Terra Fantastica", Gallery Ten, Rockford, Illinois
- "Resurgam Gallery’s Third Annual Juried Exhibition" Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland (David Tannous, juror)
- "As The World Turns - An Environmental Show" Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island (Cora Gibbs, juror)
- 1994
- "Drawings 1994" Los Angeles Harbor College Art Gallery, Wilmington, California (Peter Frank, juror)
- "Second International" Gallery 57, Fullerton, California (Peter Frank, juror)
- "The Last Decade" Gallery 57, Fullerton, California (Stephanie Jackson-Dillon, juror)
- 1990
- “A Salute to Fashion Design Alumni of Otis Institute of Parsons School of Design” Main Gallery, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, California
- 1989
- Alumnae Show, Emma Willard School, Troy, New York
- 1987
- Critic Awards Show, Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California
- Senior Show, Main Gallery, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, California
- 1986
- Critic Awards Show, Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California
- 1984
- “Freshman Foundation Show” Otis/Parsons Main Building, Los Angeles, California (curator)
- 1981
- "Women’s Show" Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1974
- “Best of Show” Rensselaer County Council for the Arts, Troy, New York
Clients and Employment History
- Felina
- Esportia Intl
- Mattel Toys, Barbie Customized Division
- Staples, Inc/ Rosemary Brantley