Paige Anderson

My work seeks to explore how space-whether physical or emotional-is made sacred through repeated events. The use of methodical processes and repetitive forms reference the quotidian routines that make up daily life; the succession of daily rituals that eventually stack up like repeated miracles and create meaning.

I try to incorporate the truer parts of daily life: the messes, disasters and ultimately the forming of beauty through accumulated layers-be they predictable and clean, or raw and variable. Methodical processes also underscore the connection my work has to traditional women's work-like quilting-as well as daily family rituals, ceremony and pursuing genealogical research.

My work is an outgrowth of interest in ancestry and patterns that form through families. I have come to understand my life and personal history as an outgrowth of my family's. My work explores the idea that I am but one on a string of genetically linked individuals. This notion has profound implications; that events give birth to events, changes to changes, and actions to actions; that I am but part of a grand causality.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017

• Women Artists of Utah: a curated exhibit, Gallery 2901, Salt Lake City, UT
• Art & Soup: curated exhibition, Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
• Love's Small Rituals: group exhibition, HERE, Provo, UT

2016

• Honoring Utah Artists: curated exhibition, Alpine Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
• * President's Art Show: Salt Lake City Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah (Community Award recipient)
• 31st Annual Spiritual and Religious Show: Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah
• * 1st Annual Zion Art Competition: a juried exhibition, Anthony's Art Gallery, Salt Lake City (honorable mention award recipient)
• Une Petite Nuit: a group exhibition, Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT
• DEMOgraphics: a group exhibition, The Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 300 Plates: a group exhibition, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 92nd Annual Spring Salon: a juried exhibition, Springville Art Museum, Springville Utah

2015

• Two Lines: a duo exhibition, Meyer Gallery, Park City, Utah
• *30th Annual Spiritual and Religious Show: a juried exhibition, Springville Art Museum, Springville Utah
• * 10th International Art Competition: Tell Me The Stories of Jesus: a juried exhibition, LDS Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah (*museum  purchase award)
• 41st Annual Statewide Competition: a juried exhibition, Eccles Art Center, Ogden Utah
• 50th Anniversary Show: a group exhibition, Meyer Gallery, Park City, Utah
• 91st Annual Spring Salon: a juried exhibition, Springville Art Museum, Springville, Utah
• Every Polished Grace: 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition: a juried exhibition, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2014

• Shared Language: a group exhibition, Meyer Gallery, Park City, Utah
• 90th Annual Springville Art Museum Spring Salon: a juried exhibition, Springville Art Museum, Springville, Utah
• Utah Ties: a juried exhibition, Central Utah Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

2013

• All She Wants is Art: a group exhibition, Communal Restaurant, Provo, Utah
• The Transparent Self: a juried exhibition, Homewood Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2012

• Make Known His Wonderful Works: a juried exhibition, LDS Church History Museum, SLC, UT