Evelyn Anderson
July 1 – October 14, 2022
Evelyn Anderson is an oil painter, muralist, and poet whose family portraits explore the idea of homeland and belonging. Her work is guided by Lenca traditions that say the water is full of life, and that it is our duty to protect it. Anderson finds relationship to water by painting it in its many forms—ocean, river, lake, cloud, and even in our own bodies. By conducting interviews with family members and friends in her mother’s hometown in Honduras, Anderson’s paintings create a visual archive of family histories. She recreates the ideas her family shared with her by painting plants, animals, and bodies of water from their stories. By portraying moments of family joy and belonging, Anderson’s paintings replace distance with intimacy—barriers with transcendence. By creating these images of joy and unity, her work mends the relationship between the body, shared memories, family, and nature.”
