Join us for Seek & Hide: Works by Eleanor Anderson and Justin Korver with a collab piece with community students from this summer’s Debbie McMahon Fibers Symposium.
Opening Reception: November 14th at 6:00 PM
Artist Talk: November 14th at 5:30 PM
UT San Antonio Southwest Campus, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries
The Debbie McMahon Fibers Symposium is a conversation with contemporary weavers, both coming from traditional methods and influences based on their cultural heritage. Though coming from different cultures located thousands of miles apart, commonalities built on traditions exist in their current practices.
Eleanor Anderson
Through my art, I engage in world-making through the process of play and material-errantry. My form of world-making uses craft traditions as a flexible constraint; I collaborate with materials and colors to achieve a coherence and consistency finely attuned to my intuitive judgment. I look for openings in the making process where I can ply confident imperfections and deviations, subverting fixed expectations of the tradition or technique at hand. I often use bright colors and repeating patterns as a way of injecting each project with evidence of the exuberant aliveness I feel when making art. My practice seeks to alleviate daily doldrums and spiritless ways of living – instead, transforming objects and spaces into paratelic experiences. I gift these works to the viewer as an optimistic nudge towards joy, connection and a playful awareness of how the larger world could be.
Website & CV: Eleanor Anderson
Justin Korver
Justin Korver is an artist and educator who lives and works in Kansas City. He is originally from a small town in the northwest corner of Iowa and the plains of home taught him to understand minimalism. He moved to Holland, Michigan to complete his undergraduate work at Hope College. While in Michigan, he was influenced by mid-century design and discovered a passion for hardware stores. After Michigan, he moved to Texas to pursue his MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio where his thesis focused on the critique of the social construction of masculinity. After grad school, He began working as a Senior Lecturer of Art at Texas A&M San Antonio where he facilitated various courses in the theory and practice of art.
He then moved to Kansas City in 2024 to accept an Assistant Professor of Foundation position at the Kansas City Art Institute. At KCAI he mentors students as they navigate the first year of their college experience. He also maintains an active research practice. He exhibits his artwork extensively with recent exhibitions at the Contemporary at Blue Star, grayDUCK Gallery, and Artpace. He has participated in artist residencies at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Casa LÜ in Mexico City, and Rockland Woods outside Seattle.
Website:Justin Korver
