Abigail Anderson is a Minnesota native who resides and works in the Minneapolis area. She received her BA from St. Olaf College in 1999, where she studied fine art and biology. These studies fostered a synthesis between art-making and the observations explored in laboratory work. An acute interest in the natural world continues to infuse her artistic expressions. Anderson sustains her curiosity in nature and science, which she deems an inexhaustible wealth of observable wonders, evocative symbols, surprising oddities, and ubiquitous beauty. She values art-centered community involvement, having volunteered with various Minneapolis organizations, including Free Arts and Courage Center.
"In terms of both process and outcome, I am engrossed with negative space and compelled by iterative design. Initially I draw the subject merely to eek out a confined space, a shelter against the vast ground of blank paper. My techniques for generating imagery include amassing values, foraging for color harmonies, fusing hues, binding shapes into clusters, accumulating marks, propagating patterns like cultures on a Petri dish. The methodical labor permits the mind to alternate between intense focus and meandering distraction. Visual mantrics imbue the drawing with spirit, equally enthusiastic as it is obsessive."
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