Visual Arts — October 3, 2012 19:56 — 3 Comments

Lea Anderson

When I view Lea’s work I can’t help but see her eye.  I mean that quite literally.  I see her eye, magnified, looking back at me through the lens of her microscope, reading and whispering the secrets of what she sees.

Most of us can’t help but see things on the largest of scales, can’t help but imply grandeur to our perspective, to the now, the immediate world we experience.  We see the grand implications in tiny motions, imply finality to the smallest of words and view the crust rather than the depth of the core.

In Lea’s work we travel through a world of the smallest of scales.  Her work speaks to a molecular level of life and ultimately a universality of experience. Yet, the grandeur of the connectivity is inescapable.

I can’t help but hope that when it’s my turn to be read, the dashes and dots of my code will be filled with the Morse of my life, like a diary in volumes.  That my anti-parallel will be stuttered by my experience, the exploits, the food, the inescapable sadness, the uncharted adventures and the little things that kept me from sleeping at night.  And that, when unraveled by my narrator, what lies within the whispered secrets will be the real code that motivated me.

-Visual Arts Editor, Liz McDonald

 

Memoryfeeld

This installation work is a visualization of my collective memory
1000 Acrylic Gel Transfers, Acrylic, plastic, wire
approx 27’w x 12’h x 2’d

Membrainchain

Based on the MRI image of a brain, each brain melds and morphs into the next, evoking the similarity to minds or ideas connecting and communicating
675 Archival digital prints on Laminated Acetate, wire
Dimensions variable

Millipod

 One pod image, (the largest center image in the piece) is altered and reproduced 999 different ways. The entire collection of  ‘pod relatives’ forms one enormous mass consciousness- the “Millipod”.
1000 Archival Digital prints on Laminated Acetate, wire
approx 10’w x 9’h x 20″d

 

 

Bio:

LEA ANDERSON

www.leaandersonart.com
leadeniseanderson@gmail.com
505-228-6562

 

BIOGRAPHY

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Lea Anderson, a San Diego native, has been living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the past nine years and has discovered much during her adventures in the dramatic, colorful, and wild desert environment. She explores living, philosophical worlds by echoing the formal variations seen in natural systems. These themes are explored through the creation of full-scale, ambitious mixed media installation projects, group projects, and several solo exhibitions using a wide variety of both digital and traditional media. She has exhibited throughout the United States as well as internationally in Bangkok, Thailand in 2010. In 2008 she was awarded “Best Work on Paper” in the Albuquerque Biennial Southwest. She received an MFA (with Distinction) in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico in 2006.

 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

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My works are visual seeds that, when planted in the observer’s eye, take root in

his/her mind. This generative process is guided by what I consider to be a living, formal language that is given substance by the anamorphic forms I create. The pieces exhibit organic or biological characteristics, and can be compared to marine life, microbes, or fungi. The colorful, bulbous, pod-like forms expand and pulse with life, their bodies seeming to mutate and spread.  Encapsulated within each form are marks, textures, and patterns: elements that comprise or reflect an inner language. The ‘meaning’ of this visual idiom seems to instinctively mutate in reaction to my current philosophical chemistry. The meaning elicited by the work is active, alive, and challenges the viewer to capture it… but this effort, like attempting to grasp globules of oil in water, is slippery and evasive. I see my task more as that of a keeper, even a breeder, of this living polysemic entity, rather than a translator of its cultural presence.

3 Comments

  1. Rob says:
    May 12, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    Wow! I like the “eyeball” a lot. I would like to see the pieces big.

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  2. Emma Jane Johnson says:
    July 15, 2021 at 4:15 pm

    Is this currently being exhibited? If so, where? They are beautiful.

    Reply
  3. Pryt says:
    May 15, 2022 at 11:23 am

    It is soooooooooo beautiful
    and it is all based on God’s Creation….
    My compliments…!

    Reply

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