Ky Anderson

It has been a while since I have talked about the work of Ky Ander­son, but I love it all the same. I enjoy Ky’s use of col­or, and despite their more mut­ed char­ac­ter­is­tics, they are not mud­dled. And, if they are mud­dled, Ky explains in her state­ment that they are that way by their very nature: 

If you stop what you are doing and look as far away as you can, even if it is just in the oth­er room, or if you are lucky enough to be out­side, look as far away as you can. There are so many things/stuff/objects in your way of see­ing far into the dis­tance. Those dis­trac­tions, objects, pat­terns and the small­est open­ing that lets you see even fur­ther are what my paint­ings are about. They are about the things in the way of see­ing as far as you can. Some­times these objects in my paint­ings are from mem­o­ries, mem­o­ries of the col­or of a room or shape of a hill. The com­bi­na­tion of the strug­gle to see in the dis­tance and flash­es of mem­o­ries make up the sto­ries with­in my paint­ings. Out of these thoughts comes work that looks almost abstract, but in my eyes the com­bi­na­tion of shapes and col­ors have stories. 

All images via her web­site. Ky also has a blog detail­ing her art col­lec­tion, which I real­ly enjoyed view­ing as well.