ARTIST SHOWCASE

SHOWCASE DATES:
June 25 - August 31, 2026

Annie Walker.

Born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Orleans, Annie Walker is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, mural work, and sculpture. She studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and earned a BFA from Tulane University, where she developed a strong foundation in color theory, composition, and visual storytelling.

Walker’s work is deeply informed by the natural world. Influenced by the landscapes of the American West, particularly the Sierra Nevada, she explores the interplay of light, texture, and atmosphere through richly layered surfaces and expressive use of color. Time spent working in Yosemite’s high country fostered a lasting connection to wilderness that continues to shape her artistic vision.

After beginning her career in New Orleans, where she exhibited and sold her work in Jackson Square, Walker relocated to San Francisco in 2015 and became an active presence in the Bay Area arts community through gallery exhibitions, public murals, and art markets. She now lives and works in South Lake Tahoe, California.

In recent years, Walker has expanded her practice beyond painting to include ceramics, bronze casting, metalwork, and found-object sculpture. Across mediums, her work investigates the relationship between material, place, and memory, translating observed landscapes and lived experiences into vibrant, tactile forms.

Through an evolving studio practice, Walker continues to explore the expressive possibilities of color, texture, and scale, creating work that reflects both a deep engagement with the natural environment and an enduring sense of curiosity and discovery.

Altitude Adjustments explores the emotional and psychological transformation that comes from living in prolonged solitude within California’s High Sierra. Created during summers spent living and working in Yosemite’s backcountry, with a permanent residence in South Lake Tahoe the rest of the year, this body of work reflects a personal healing journey. It considers what happens when isolation strips life down to its rawest form; when there is nowhere to hide, and one is forced to sit with the uncomfortable self.

In the mountains, wilderness is not a backdrop, it is a constant presence. An owl screeches from the dark forest at the end of my street, echoing through the night and haunting the house. A rabbit survives beneath my porch while coyotes circle and attempt to track it each night. Bobcats and badgers move silently through the landscape, while bears test car door handles in search of entry. The stillness of alpine mornings, and the underlying danger within overwhelming beauty, all shape this work. These landscapes are not depictions of place alone, but portraits of an internal state. Emotional and psychological shifts that occur when one is left alone long enough to fully confront themselves.

Built through heavy texture and activated by UV light, the paintings shift between the familiar and the surreal, mirroring altered perception that emerges through grief, healing, solitude, and self-confrontation. 

Altitude Adjustments is both a love letter to the High Sierra and a record of what it means to be changed by it: to be broken open by wilderness, rebuilt in isolation, and remade through the act of surviving yourself. Artifacts of survival, adaptation, and reinvention.

Interested in displaying your artwork? Email Katie at mrbkatie@gmail.com