Comprised of sculptural ceramic boxes and baskets installed in three distinctive outdoor locations, Setup activates throughways and tucked-away corners across the Foundation’s grounds. Drawing from the visual vocabulary of roadside structures encountered while driving throughout the Hudson Valley, Anderson constructs forms that echo makeshift farm stands, produce containers, abandoned pallets, and free piles. She considers the sites and circumstances that these everyday objects occupy, examining their logics of display and the ways they integrate or contrast with the natural landscape. Anderson engages techniques of casting, projecting, deconstructing, and reconstructing to create new associations between the utilitarian, the provisional, and the handmade.
Lauren Anderson (b. Portsmouth, VA, 1983) explores expanded notions of painting and sculpture and is currently an Artist-In-Residence at Bard College. Setup is curated by Marisa Espe and organized in partnership with River Valley Arts Collective. Please click here to reserve your spot for a guided tour (RSVP required).
Photos by David Schulze, courtesy River Valley Arts Collective.