Anne Spalter
Anne Spalter is a pioneering visual artist whose work fuses the speculative language of science fiction with archetypal imagery from the collective unconscious. Working across traditional and digital media, she creates immersive, symbolic landscapes that blur the line between the natural and the cosmic. Her richly detailed paintings, prints, and animations invite viewers into dreamlike worlds inhabited by mythic animals, celestial forms, and surreal deserts—spaces where inner and outer realities converge and transformation becomes possible.
A longtime leader in digital art, Spalter helped establish the field within the fine art canon. In the 1990s, she founded the first digital fine arts courses at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, legitimizing the computer as a creative tool and shaping today’s digital art pedagogy. Her book The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison-Wesley) remains a foundational text used internationally in universities and museums.
Beyond her studio practice, Spalter is a collector, curator, and advocate for the preservation of digital art. She has lectured widely at institutions including Christie’s and the Smithsonian, bringing both historical context and speculative insight to discussions of technology in art.
Her work is held in major public collections such as the Centre Pompidou, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the RISD Museum, and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, and has been auctioned by Sotheby’s and Phillips. Featured in The New York Times, ARTNews, Artnet, and The Boston Globe, Spalter’s art bridges formal rigor and visionary imagination.
Through her research-based, cross-disciplinary practice, she continues to expand the possibilities of digital and mixed-media art while inviting viewers to rediscover wonder, intuition, and the mythic dimensions of contemporary experience.
Artist Statement
Surrealist Landscapes is a series of visionary artworks that reimagine the natural world as a site of transformation and revelation. Each piece unfolds as both an external environment and an interior dream space. Mountains rise like memories, stars pulse with consciousness, and light itself becomes a spiritual language. Across the series, luminous color and dreamlike geometry suggest a universe that is both familiar and otherworldly. The landscapes operate as mirrors of the psyche, spaces where the boundaries between sky and water, matter and spirit, dissolve.
Future Landscapes is a series of archival limited-edition prints exploring personal symbolism, collective memory, and imagined worlds. Each work merges algorithmic processes with hand-directed digital techniques to evoke dreamlike terrains where technology and intuition coexist. Continuing my long-standing interests in landscape, surrealism, and science fiction, the series also reflects a spiritual search, a meditation on the unseen forces that shape perception and the possibility of transcendence within the digital sublime.
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