Annie Anderson
My work explores how different versions of one’s experience of self over time can co-exist, inform and support one another. The unpredictable, free quality of my line is inspired by Andy Warhol’s drawings of the 1950s and by Paul Klee’s ink transfer technique. Paper as a surface provides a softness and fragility, and in varying degrees, captures early marks, lines and discarded figures or fragments of figures. In this way, the completed piece documents the act of discovery and becoming.
I’m interested in conveying the duality of experience and its enigmatic presence in everyday life. For example: sorrow and joy, magic and mundane, abundance and loss, fragility and strength. My process reinforces this duality with its push and pull between abstraction and representation. My hope is that the figures and narratives presented carry less specificity and more universality, that my work will connect with others and will reflect something real in their lives—something they recognize, feel, or have lived through themselves.
BIOGRAPHY
Annie is a Maine-based artist. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art History from Colorado College. She has worked at the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and as an in-house graphic designer at the Museum of Modern Art.
For the past two decades she has lived and worked in Portland, ME, making art while also raising three sons and working as a graphic designer. In 2020 she committed herself to a sustained, full-time art practice.
