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Annelisse Molini was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is an artist who dabbles in painting, sculpture and installation. In 1984 she began her studies at the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico where she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Design. In 1991 she completed her Masters in Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she received the Henry Adams Medal awarded by the American Institute of Architects to the most outstanding graduate student. She then went on to earn a Bachelor of Architecture degree.
Her interest in drawing and painting led her to complement her profession with the visual arts. While working as an architect, she took courses at the League of Arts of San Juan and from 1994 to 1998 worked under the tutelage of artist Andy Bueso, a teacher and friend, whom enriched her theoretical knowledge and helped her to formalize her participation in painting, holding her first solo exhibition at the Museum of the Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1999.
Annelisse continued her learning in a self-taught way, becoming from that moment on a tireless reader and student of the subject of art and its history. In 2006 she started working full time in art and began to combine figuration with abstraction, working on social themes and experimenting with different materials such as wood, metal and rubber. Her background in architecture also led her to experiment with space, working with various installations.
Again seeking new languages of expression, Annelisse has collaborated with the prestigious fashion designer Gustavo Arango, where the combination of their disciplines has led to several works on magazine covers and in the press. Aware of the impact that art can have on human beings, and as a result of the impact of the pandemic, Molini has also developed CREATE IS GROW: ART FOR ALL, an art program for young adults with special needs with the mission of using art as a means of self-expression, increasing self-esteem and providing them with tools to work through their conditions. At this time Annelisse continues to develop her work using elements of drawing in architecture such as: sketches, perspectives, facades and other conceptual elements such as deconstructivism. These elements, together with the “collage” technique, are now part of this artist’s complex work, with her pieces belonging to important private collections and public institutions in the country as well as numerous private spaces in Puerto Rico and abroad.
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My work is the combination of two disciplines: my studies in architecture and painting. I am passionate about seeing in paintings, as in architectural works: movement, distortion and meshing between background and figure. In my work, I seek to create a dialogue between these concepts and link them to my personal experiences. I want to reinterpret, exaggerate and temper my contemporaneity in search of creating a new perception of space, very much my own, but one the observer can question and find a resonance with their own reality.
Through a discourse of networks and paths, I present spaces that move between the figurative and the abstract to create a state of confusion and contemplation. I explore baroque spatial sequences, where the vulnerable, distorted, and sometimes caricatured human figure can appear and disappear within the environment. To emphasize the disorder I develop urban layouts exacerbated with the use of perspective. I use contradictory elements: color and black and white striped drawing; geometric elements and sinuous curves; the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, the thin and the thick; the straight and the curved; the light and the dark, creating intersections between the orderly and the chaotic. Structures represented by corridors, floor patterns, doors and domes, among others, refer to distinctive elements of my culture, such as native slabs and neoclassical churches. I experiment with different materials and collage processes to create the various layers in the composition. I explore different techniques in the same work, but in a continuous search for harmony.
