About
Photo by Jo Silver taken at the Ellis Beauregard Foundation
Statement:
Through my art, I engage in world-making through the process of play and material-errantry. My form of world-making uses craft traditions as a flexible constraint; I collaborate with materials and colors to achieve a coherence and consistency finely attuned to my intuitive judgment. I look for openings in the making process where I can ply confident imperfections and deviations, subverting fixed expectations of the tradition or technique at hand. I often use bright colors and repeating patterns as a way of injecting each project with evidence of the exuberant aliveness I feel when making art. My practice seeks to alleviate daily doldrums and spiritless ways of living - instead, transforming objects and spaces into paratelic experiences. I gift these works to the viewer as an optimistic nudge towards joy, connection and a playful awareness of how the larger world could be.
About:
Bio: Eleanor Anderson (b. 1998 she/her) works predominantly in textiles but also enjoys exploring other mediums such as glass, metal and clay. Anderson has been awarded residencies at Pilchuck School of Glass (Stanwood, WA), Windgate Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Haystack School, (Deer Isle, ME) and the Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY) and and the Museum of Glass, (Tacoma, WA). She has taught workshops at Penland, Pocosin School of Crafts, as well as been a professor at Colorado College, the Cleveland Institute of Art and College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She is based in Portland, Maine.