ARTIST STATEMENT
Moment by moment we live a life. Mark by mark we leave a history of that life, in that place at that time. I search for simplicity in the complex and complexities in the minimal . The power of space and the energy of a mark lends a means to explore ephemeral moments. Each piece evolves as a conversation that begins with mark making. My process is one of adding and subtracting materials in response to the marks that come before. The event of mark making creates a history of that process. The visual record offers an opportunity to recognize, question, linger, reflect and respond. Intimate scale invites a one-on-one conversation, perhaps at times it even whispers as it invites the viewer to engage with me for a shared moment. Jeannine D. Anderson
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jeannine D. Anderson was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. She earned MFA and BFA degrees from Colorado State University, a BS from Northern Illinois University and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously she has taught as a Professor at Alfred University, Berea College, University of Arizona and Arizona State University. Jeannine is a mixed-media artist, exploring a sense of time and place, mark making and the emotive properties of color in her abstract works on panel and paper. She has exhibited extensively throughout the US and Japan. She has been supported by grants from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women and Berea College. She is honored to have her work included in the permanent collection of the M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum in San Francisco and to have exhibited at the Hokkaido Museum of Art in Sapporo, Japan. She currently works in her studios in Brunswick, Maine and on Bois Blanc Island, Michigan.
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