About
Caroline Anderson is a Rhode Island based painter and prinmaker 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.
Through these technical and pictorial contradictions, her paintings invoke the tensions that are analogous to our attempts to live placid normal lives, through circumstances that should call us to urgent action.
Anderson’s work engages a concept called “hypernormalization,” the acceptance of a simplified or distorted version of reality, or the belief that a broken system is normal. The term was coined by Russian historian Alexei Yurchak to describe the final days of the Soviet Union.
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.
