About

Caroline Anderson is a Rhode Island based painter and former art professor whose work is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include the Cleveland and Columbus Museums of Art, Fargo’s Plains Art Museum, Cincinnati’s Arnoff Center for the Arts, and Chicago’s Judy Saslow, ARC, and WomanMade galleries. International projects include TransCultural Exchange’s Tile Project, consisting of 22 permanent public worldwide venues, including UNESCO Paris.

Anderson’s work has a tactile, layered immediacy that expresses a passion for the physical act of painting. She mixes technical contradictions with visions of what it means to be human in times of permanent anxiety, particularly related to the climate crisis. There are ghosts, storms, strange flora and fauna, and bones.

The immediacy, physicality, and intuitive nature of conception and execution of the work is a kind of “anti AI” in that it originates in the human unconscious and its physicality cannot be produced or reproduced on a computer screen.

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Abstract and narrative painting combined in colorful objects such as a tornado, a fish, a tree, and shooting cannons. The background is grey and the spirit is playful, but the message is anxious

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