Employee Artist Profile: Anita Andersons
Anita Andersons creates surreal/ pop collages from magazine clippings that she mounts on museam board with UHU stick. Her infuences include: nature, science, humor, 50’s, 60’s, cartoons, Miro, Calder, Picasso, Henri Moore, television, pop art, primative/ tribal art, junk, and her Latvian culture.
 
 
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March 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I gotta say that I’m impressed and that I like these. Usually, I think, people tend to do too much with collages, as in using too many images and filling up the paper/canvas to the edges. The use of white space highlights the overall thought process and the layout and design of each piece. These tell the viewer that there was a reason why they were put together the way they were and are not random. Very cool and not at all what I was expecting. Pleasantly surprised and would like to see more in the future!
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
These are wonderfully creative and whimsical collages. I find them thoughtful and interesting in both the subject matter and the specific collage pieces used to create the image. Great work!
December 15th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Hey Anita,
Nice to see you on the web. You still make wonderful pieces. I miss the all night jewelry sessions with you and Pat. I am still in northern MI. Still married and Nick is 16 now. Where does it go. I am painting regularly. Ceck out my stuff http://hexentafel.webs.com/pennsilfaanischdeitsch.htm
I hope that all is well with you.
Alison
January 21st, 2009 at 12:03 am
I love it. Its very clever and entertaining in the sense that I can look at a peculiar little (or sometimes large) creature and still go piece by piece and see what creatures are in the cutouts as well. In all honesty, I think a 3-D piece in person would look sick.
April 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
glad I went to the archives to see these. Thanks. -WA
April 14th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
How can such vulnerable, multifaceted creatures juggle so much and balance so precariously on such little stages? Is art imitating life or is life imitating art? Hmmm….