MFA Thesis Show "Chloroforce"
Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston
May 16–30, 2013
Reception: May 17, 7–10 pm
Using flooring, textiles, and wallpaper, Jess Anderson seeks to improve upon her everyday surfaces with a decoration of sacred, utilitarian plants and herbs. These home design objects become limited edition prints, and as such, explore concepts of value and consumption in a commodity culture.
Anderson, a California native, works with screen printing and installation. Reacting to our Ikea-culture, where objects are inexpensive, mass produced and easily discarded, Anderson covers these everyday furnishings with a heavy hand of color and floral motifs. Rather than outsource to a machine, she imagines her body the machine as she methodically and repetitively screen prints her patterns. She is inspired by movie theater carpets, Flower Power, the Harvard Arboretum and Art Nouveau.
JessAndersonStudio.com
Image: Jess Anderson,
Chloropanel, 2013. Screenprint and latex paint on wallpaper.
