Kim Anderson
As a scavenger and collector, my paintings reconcile competing histories located in the afterlife of thrift store novelties, home movies and vernacular photography. Situated within the traditions of Baroque genre and still-life painting, my work engages fantastical fictions located in our colloquial artifacts and personal mementos, while celebrating it's women practitioners and subjects. Born in San Francisco, and raised on O`ahu I now divide my time between Bradenton, Florida and Berkeley, CA. My work has been exhibited nationally and has been featured in publications including New American Paintings, Studio Visit Magazine, Create! Magazine, and Manifest INPA and MEA. I received my MFA from the University of Florida and BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and am currently Associate Professor of Art at New College of Florida in Sarasota, FL
As a scavenger and collector, my paintings reconcile competing histories located in the afterlife of thrift store novelties, home movies and vernacular photography. Situated within the traditions of Baroque genre and still-life painting, my work engages fantastical fictions located in our colloquial artifacts and personal mementos, while celebrating it's women practitioners and subjects. Born in San Francisco, and raised on O`ahu I now divide my time between Bradenton, Florida and Berkeley, CA. My work has been exhibited nationally and has been featured in publications including New American Paintings, Studio Visit Magazine, Create! Magazine, and Manifest INPA and MEA. I received my MFA from the University of Florida and BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and am currently Associate Professor of Art at New College of Florida in Sarasota, FL
Published on April 21st, 2020. Artist responses collected in months previous.
What projects are you working on right now?
Recently I have been experimenting with stereoscopic painting. Stereoscopy speaks to the potential for painting within an increasingly mediated and digitally dependent reality. It also combines an empirical, scientific gaze with one that is more subjective. The viewer is provided a personalized space through which to receive an alternate, three-dimensional view of each paintings, and becomes implicated as a voyeur and producer within these visions.
How do you keep yourself accountable in your practice?
As a teacher, I feel my position keeps me accountable. I try to expect of myself what I might expect of my students. I work as much as I can during the week, and set fairly routine studio hours. I am also a mother, and so weekends and late nights are no longer viable options for me. This has actually really helped me stay on track, although there are times when the unexpected arises.
How do you stay motivated to pursue your creative work?
It has to remain challenging to me, technically and thematically, whether that means doing something new with materials, on a different scale, exploring new subject matter, or technological directions.
Where do you hope to be 10 years from now and what would you like to say to yourself?
I hope that I am still painting, and finding subject matter that sustains my sense of curiosity.
What projects are you working on right now?
Recently I have been experimenting with stereoscopic painting. Stereoscopy speaks to the potential for painting within an increasingly mediated and digitally dependent reality. It also combines an empirical, scientific gaze with one that is more subjective. The viewer is provided a personalized space through which to receive an alternate, three-dimensional view of each paintings, and becomes implicated as a voyeur and producer within these visions.
How do you keep yourself accountable in your practice?
As a teacher, I feel my position keeps me accountable. I try to expect of myself what I might expect of my students. I work as much as I can during the week, and set fairly routine studio hours. I am also a mother, and so weekends and late nights are no longer viable options for me. This has actually really helped me stay on track, although there are times when the unexpected arises.
How do you stay motivated to pursue your creative work?
It has to remain challenging to me, technically and thematically, whether that means doing something new with materials, on a different scale, exploring new subject matter, or technological directions.
Where do you hope to be 10 years from now and what would you like to say to yourself?
I hope that I am still painting, and finding subject matter that sustains my sense of curiosity.
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