Abbay Anderson

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Flooding, flooding (I still watch the            news), 2025. Installation of fifty acrlyic paintings on loose canvas, wooden dowels. 36’ x 8’.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis exhibition

Sheppard Contemporary Gallery,
The University of Nevada, Reno.
2025
after/image/light/search combines painting, poetry, and letterpress printing as an imperfectly unified system of symbolic communication. This body of work is concerned with the changing state of artist identity in the information age, exploring my everyday experience of an effable ocean of imagery and echoing the complexity of political, social, and personal change. Reflecting upon the way that mass image consumption complicates our understanding and attention to meaning, after/image/light/search translates small observations and ideas through paint, print, and projection. This visual miasma becomes a stand-in for ever-present political, cultural, and environmental issues that is true-to-life: without clarity, certainty or conclusions. The resulting thesis utilizes material experimentation and formal tools of layering, enjambment, and rendering to search for new insights and understandings of the visual culture in which we live.

The exhibition includes a painting-poem consisting of fifty acrylic paintings on loose canvas, a letterpress work, a book created using letterpress and shown in a custom lightbox, a projected video artist statement, and an acrylic painting on panel. The letterpress works were created using a custom-cut spiral jig with hand set metal type and ornaments from the Black Rock Press.

Full thesis here


untitled, 2025. Experimental artist statement (video projection), 10’x10’.