Photo by Alexander Berg

STATEMENT

Animistic principles permeate how I think and live. I work across multi-mediums to explore themes of patterns and rhythm represented by invisible networks within and without our bodies, relationships, landscape, and all physical matter. I employ drawing, painting, sculpture, language, sound, and textile to investigate patterns of information through material sentience.

A certified Jin Shin Jyutsu energy healer and drummer, I apply the principles of listening to pulses and percussive drum rhythmic patterns to my art practice. I employ abstraction as a means of exploring what I refer to as tuning compositions or strategies. What informs and tunes perception within our interior and exterior space?

My taxonomy of forms includes Tuning Scores for the Nervous System, Charging Stations, Earth Tuning, and Transmission Wearables, often inviting participation and collaboration. Tuning Scores for the Nervous System a visual investigation of the body’s rhythms and patterns, generates collaboration with musicians and their interpretations of the scores. Referencing the vertical as spine, and right/left polarities of the body, the vibratory patterns of the nervous system interact as a kind of radiation from within. Information carried through the spine creates neural structures where thoughts, attitudes and actions are generated. I visualize what that information looks like as it moves in thought patterns and rhythms within the body and the interaction with the agency of vital materiality without.

The Earth Tuning projects, Main Central Vertical Flow: Hudson River (maincentralvertical.blogspot.com),

Heart Flow: Kingston”and Spleen Flow: Unison Sculpture Garden”overlay Jin Shin Jyutsu energy patterns onto the earth with “acupuncture needles” made of copper rods wrapped with iron wire inserted into specific locations as contact points or attractors connecting to the symbiotic relationships in root systems that transfer information through carbon messages

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My attention to vital materiality has led me to develop a zero-waste project where I examine the detritus of my daily life (coffee pods, lint roller papers…) to imagine ways of transformation into resource material for re-use.

Through interaction with the agency of vital materiality, I seek out materials and patterns with conductive and therapeutic qualities to employ a visual physio-philosophical context to promote more attentive encounters between people and things. The nature of substance combined with intention, links physical material properties to the spiritual. I'm curious how the art object unifies and balances the body and landscape by revealing invisible material sentience.

BIO

Kathleen Anderson (born New Haven, CT) lives and works in the Hudson Valley since 1990. An interdisciplinary artist who explores interconnectivity through material sentience and information patterns through drawing, painting, sculpture, language, sound, and textile. A drummer, and certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner Anderson applies physio-philosophical principles of vital materiality, pulse listening and percussive drum rhythmic patterns to her art practice.

Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Bronx Museum of Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Oberlin College, Brown University, Dorsky Museum, SUNY, New Paltz and Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY. She is a dharma teacher at Catskill Zendo, a Korean Zen temple in Summitville, NY and a museum educator at Dia Beacon, a contemporary art museum in Beacon, NY.