Anita Loomis
Art of Connection
Anita Loomis creates contemporary paintings that explore human connection, communication, and the relationships we build with one another and the world around us. Through expressive color, distinctive marks, and a playful visual language, her work considers the challenges and possibilities of navigating relationships across different experiences and perspectives.
Loomis moves between abstracted figures, intimate scenes, and imagined landscapes, using painting to consider both interpersonal connection and our relationship with the natural environment. Her background in architectural stained glass informs her sensitivity to color, structure, and composition, while humor and curiosity keep her paintings open, lively, and deeply human.
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Available works typically range from $630–$4,700.
About the Work
Communication is at the center of Loomis’s painting practice. Her Couples series explores the bonds between people through abstracted and simplified figures, often removing specific facial features so that the relationships depicted can remain open and recognizable to viewers. Vibrant color, expressive lines, and symbols create a visual language for connection, companionship, and the things that remain unspoken.
Loomis’s relationship paintings are balanced by a longstanding interest in the natural world. In works from her Tomorrowland series, imagined landscapes contain unusual plants, animals, and architectural structures, prompting questions about how life might adapt as the environment changes. Other landscapes draw from real places while filtering them through memory, imagination, and abstraction.
Color and structure are fundamental to Loomis’s approach. Her years working in architectural stained glass inform an awareness of how shapes, lines, and fields of color interact, while her expressive painting style incorporates humor, movement, and unexpected details. Whether depicting people or imagined environments, she creates spaces that encourage viewers to consider their own relationships, experiences, and connections to the world around them.
Biography
Anita Loomis was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1964 and grew up in Massachusetts. She earned a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University and an MA with a concentration in Arts Management from the University of Central Florida. Before focusing on her painting practice, Loomis worked for many years in architectural stained glass, an experience that continues to inform her approach to color, form, and composition. She lives and works in Kittery, Maine.
Loomis’s work has been exhibited throughout New England, as well as in China and Japan, including exhibitions at Fountain Street Gallery in Boston and Miller White Gallery in South Dennis, Massachusetts. Recent exhibitions include Abstraction at Maine Art Hill and Embracing Uncertainty at The Art Gallery at the New England Center for the Arts.
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