The work of Ann Stewart Anderson is characterized by dynamic ambiguity. Whether creating from broken dishes, painting in oils on canvas, or printing a woodcut the images are both witty and profound, creative and traditional, experimental and skilled, archetypal and unique.

Specifically, she chose to explore the subject of WOMAN.

Inspired by personal experiences as well as mythological and historic stories, with intelligent compassion she created images of woman, not as an object of desire but as individuals who struggle and triumph in universal and age old dynamics.

Anderson, who made art for seven decades, reveled in the exploration of various media and the special pleasures of the process of creativity with all its ups and downs. She was a colorist; she loved pattern; she used traditional and personal symbology; she was inspired by artists of the past and experiences of the present.

Links:

KFW Honors the Life of Ann Stewart Anderson

http://www.louisvillevisualart.org/artebella/2017/7/24/vignette-ann-stewart-anderson

City loses two masters in Ann Stewart Anderson and Alun Jones

In recognition of artistic excellence, Ann Stewart Anderson is the recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.