NAME: Lorene Anderson
BIRTH PLACE: Manhattan, Kansas
BIOGRAPHY
Lorene Anderson lives and works in Oakland, California. Anderson received her B.F.A. from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. from UC Berkeley, where she received the Eisner Award for painting. She has been exhibiting her work internationally and throughout the Bay Area, including the SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, Oakland Art Gallery, and Gen Art's Emerge exhibition in San Francisco. Her work was recently included in an exhibition in Japan, April 2006.
The paintings explore the manipulation of two-dimensional space; math, cosmology, physics and their relationship to biology. Chance, gravity and physics control the shape, direction, and distribution of paint. Anderson is interested in emergence and self-automating systems and reinforces this exploration by mimicking these concepts in the paint application. She lets paint travel across wet areas creating a webbed effect, or lets different mediums merge and separate/feather into one another or totally repel each other. Marbles wet with ink are dropped onto paper and are left to move freely; the ink marks record the kinetic energy of the marbles and/or the paper's support. In effect, the paint and ink marks are organizing themselves according to chance, chemical and physical properties.
