Ann Benton Yeager
Ann Benton Yeager is a native of Lancaster County, and more specifically, hails from a small college town named Millersville. Ann is representative of a lineage of very accomplished artists, including her Great, Great Uncle, Thomas Hart Benton (an American Regionalist Painter 1889-1975). Benton taught and mentored Jackson Pollock (an American Abstract Expressionist (1912-1956). To add to her credentials, Ann has been internationally published in the 2016 International Contemporary Artists, Volume XI, publication. She also won the first Readers' Choice Award for Best Artist for the "Simply the Best" contest inHarrisburg Magazine in 2021. Ann has won numerous awards at juried exhibitions in the local area, including best in show. Ann is an abstract, contemporary artist who specializes in acrylic mixed media, cold wax and oil and acrylic pouring. Ann also works heavily in alcohol inks and dabbles in watercolor. She enjoys adding serious texture to her works by utilizing nusual materials to add interest to the canvas.
Ann also teaches art classes in several counties in Central PA. She absolutely loves sharing her knowledge with others who have the same passion or simply want to try something new. Some of her artistic influences are many of the modern and postmodern expressionistic artists of the 60's and 70's, primarily Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jane Plum and Mark Rothko.
Ann has exhibited in numerous juried shows, cultural centers and galleries, as well as local community shows and art galleries. She is an artist-in-residency at The Lancaster Art Vault,
100 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA, as well as an artist-in-residency at The Millworks, 340
Verbeke Street, Harrisburg, PA.
Feel free to stop her studios to meet her and see her works in person. Ann hopes you find her art fun, interesting and thought-provoking.
