GRACEANN WARN

Graceann Warn is an American artist whose paintings and assemblages explore excavation as both process and metaphor—an ongoing act of uncovering, covering, and revealing. Born and raised in New Jersey, Warn earned her degree in landscape architecture from Michigan State University and later pursued a Master’s at the University of Michigan, where her formal training in landscape architecture and classical archaeology continues to inform her work’s structure and sense of place. A pivotal encounter with an exhibition of Mark Rothko’s final paintings proved transformative, prompting her to devote her life fully to art. Since 1985, Warn has maintained a full-time studio practice, exhibiting and collecting work nationally and internationally. Drawn to palimpsests, scarred walls, and vestiges of thought, her quiet yet complex works evoke fragmented histories and elusive meaning, inviting viewers into a porous landscape where time, memory, and language intersect. She lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, Geoff.