A sculptor for 40 years, M.J. Anderson collaborates with marble to create sculpture that is enduring, intimate and reverent. She responds to the many unique qualities of each stone, often giving her woman’s voice to the storyline of history, striving to celebrate that which is both ancient and immediate in all of us.
Her latest body of work, INEXTINGUISHABLE is showing at IMOGEN GALLERY August 9th – September 8th and focuses on our age-old relationship with fire.
The collection of pieces for this show are part memoir, part rallying-cry, part anthropology of the human soul. Anderson states, “Flames bring an inexhaustible fountain of metaphor and historical reference to how we evolve as a species. From age-old gatherings around the warmth of fire, flames have been the center of our life on the planet. A few torsos in the show are inspired by Saint and brave feminist Joan of Arc (who was vilified by the same powers whom her army saved) while other abstracted flame forms are symbolic of creative energies and passions. I have created a series of sculpture which reference a final test, as Dante ( Purgatorio) must penetrate the wall of flames of purification to arrive in Seventh Heaven. My work is about the metaphoric flame which burns in each of us ---and the responsibility for each of us to keep that flame alive.”
Her latest body of work, INEXTINGUISHABLE is showing at IMOGEN GALLERY August 9th – September 8th and focuses on our age-old relationship with fire.
The collection of pieces for this show are part memoir, part rallying-cry, part anthropology of the human soul. Anderson states, “Flames bring an inexhaustible fountain of metaphor and historical reference to how we evolve as a species. From age-old gatherings around the warmth of fire, flames have been the center of our life on the planet. A few torsos in the show are inspired by Saint and brave feminist Joan of Arc (who was vilified by the same powers whom her army saved) while other abstracted flame forms are symbolic of creative energies and passions. I have created a series of sculpture which reference a final test, as Dante ( Purgatorio) must penetrate the wall of flames of purification to arrive in Seventh Heaven. My work is about the metaphoric flame which burns in each of us ---and the responsibility for each of us to keep that flame alive.”
