Events
Uncommon Artist Residency Talk with Alise Anderson
Mar 23 | THU | 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location
Multi-Purpose Studio
We are pleased to welcome artist Alise Anderson to the Art Association's studios as Teton Artlab's Uncommon Artist in Residence. Join us in the Multi-Purpose Studio for an informative talk about Alise's process and artwork.
Through sculpture, video, and performance Alise Anderson investigates the mundanity and absurdity of ordinary objects. In dialog with a vast array of materials, the artist manipulates and constructs forms which blur definitions of functional and nonfunctional. This dissonance reveals Anderson’s concerns regarding value; how value and purpose might be imposed upon objects through their reconstruction or redefinition, and how objects without purpose often feel meaningless. The conversation of value continues in the artist’s process, which is patient and durational. Each work becomes slowly familiar and important through their formulation, as if uncovering a history. The artist’s history and biography is undeniably associated with the work. The body isn’t visually represented, but suggested, both in how the body participates in fabrication and in how a body relates to the work’s final placement. Themes of trauma, humor, religion, and internet culture emerge as Anderson continues to decode her relationship to a world full of objects. Comedy and sadness are both present in the room.
Learn more about Alise Anderson
307-733-6379
