Annie O'Brien Gonzales grew up on the wide-open plains of Oklahoma. After finishing college and graduate school, she migrated further west living in Oregon, Washington & California before finally landing in the Great Southwest. She gained formal art training in the BFA program at Oregon State University majoring in painting and art history. Memories of prairies, broad skies and lush gardens find their expression in her paintings through color, texture and pattern. Working at times in oil and other times in acrylic, adding texture with charcoal, graphite, crayon or collage, she creates spontaneous images on canvas, board, and paper at times adding texture by drawing, scratching and erasing surfaces.

She has appeared in numerous shows in the Southwest and her work is in private collections in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

Selected Juried Shows

• "Nature", Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, Denver, Colorado, April 8-July 2, 2010
• "On the Grid" Solo Show, Wells Fargo Bank, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December, 2009
• 2009 Encantada!, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rio Grande Art Association show, Sept 4-28, 2009
• Taos International Juried Exhibition, The Taos Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, March 6-May 8, 2009
• Oklahoma Friendly, Oklahoma Art Guild National Juried Exhibition, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK, March 6-April 11, 2009
• Arizona Edges, Tubac Art Center, Arizona, January 9-February 15, 2009
• Day of the Dead Show, Jennie Cooley Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October-November, 2008
• Photographer, “Studio Vignettes-Judi Goolsby”, Studios Magazine, Fall, 2008
• 2008 Encantada!, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rio Grande Art Association juried show, Sept 14-Oct 2, 2008
• Colorado Plein Air Painters Juried Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado, July, 2008
• Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, Sumner Dene Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July, 2008
• Colorado Annual Juried Show, Pagosa Springs Art Center, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, June 19-July 10, 2008
• “New Mexico Spring”- Solo Show, Wells Fargo Bank Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1-30, 2008
• "Fabrications", New Mexico State Capital Rotunda, Summer, 2008
• “Messengers”, Solo show, Java Joe’s Cafe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1-31, 2007
• 11th Annual "Lines into Shapes”, Art Center of Estes Park, Colorado, September, 2007
• 24th Annual "All Colorado Show”, Curtis Art Center, Greenwood Village, Colorado, June, 2007
• Art Quilt Association Annual Show, United Way Gallery, Grand Junction, Colorado, 2005
• Small Expressions, Art Quilts Gallery, Montrose, Colorado, 2005
• Alegre Art Quilt Retreat Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005