about

Sideways Gaze is an online writing and art project.

The idea is to illuminate the core of anything by observing and exploring its edges, corners, outcast parts, and seemingly meaningless details. Sideways gazing is depth sounding, dowsing, shadow reading.

About Ann Karp

I live and create in Missoula, Montana. A frequent traveler, I’ve made artwork for individuals, non-profits, and businesses in Montana, Georgia, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, Ontario, and Louisiana.

For several years, I worked as a commercial sign painter and muralist, using pinstriper’s paints to letter and adorn glass windows, wood, metal, and concrete for clients such as Edible Arrangements and Little Caesar’s Pizza. I recently began painting on canvas with artist’s oils, a formidable but welcome challenge. I’m currently looking forward to a return to drawing, my original expression.

I study art in an unofficial, piecemail fashion at the University of Montana, and have shown works at the Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC), the Fresh Paint gallery, and the Computer Central gallery, all in Missoula.

I live with my sweetheart Zippy Morocco and two ridiculous rats and also enjoy hiking, geocaching, sleeping, and staring at the sky.