Biography from American Design Ltd.:
|  Although Sally Anderson had achieved national prominence with her
creations in woven sculpture, she was not content to continue working
with that medium simply because of the success it brought her.
After weaving for 10 years, she found that her work was beginning to
frustrate, rather than to excite her, and she turned to painting and
lithography. Since then, Anderson has received national
recognition for her work in those media as well.
Raised in Wisconsin, Anderson was the eldest of five children. A
shy and sensitive girl, she would spend hours creating puppet shows for
which she painted and costumed clothespins, designed cardboard scenery,
and made up the scripts but she would perform only for her
family. In junior high school, without her knowledge, Anderson's
art teacher entered two of her pieces in a newspaper contest, and
Anderson won. Her parents, impressed with her talent, enrolled
her in art school, but Anderson soon quit because she was too shy to
let anyone see her work.
The shyness gradually dissipated, and
Anderson went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from Beloit College
in Wisconsin, and to do graduate work at the University of Wisconsin
and the Instituto de Allende in Mexico. During the years when she
worked solely in abstract fiber sculpture, Anderson won two National
Endowment for the Arts grants and several major federally-supported
commissions. She now devotes all of her time to painting,
producing abstract works that employ paint and a variety of other
media. The results are brightly-colored creations with energetic
splashes of shapes and designs.
"I build up large gessoed
canvases in different layers," explains Anderson. "Then I tape off the
edges and apply tiny lines of differing angles and colors. Next, I use
a large brush to randomly splash colors." She continues taping over
areas and applying paint, until she has built up several layers of
acrylic. When she removes the tape, Anderson often adds torn
pieces of handmade paper, foil, thread, or gold leaf and then uses a
squeeze bottle filled with paint to add tiny action lines, other marks,
and occasionally, a minute figure.
"I want my paintings to excite the senses," Anderson declares. "The
viewer can play 'find the hidden picture' or just drink in the harmony
between the explosion and the ordered energy on the canvas. I
want to create works that have energy, movement, and intensity of
color, but that also -- upon closer examination have an academic
control."
Anderson is listed in Who's Who in American Art,
and her works have been featured in countless one-person exhibitions
throughout the country. They are also displayed in numerous
collections, including Saks Fifth Avenue; the Bundy Museum; Spellman
Investment Company; and Honeywell, Incorporated, to name just a few.
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