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Fragile Things: A Visual and Written Narrative Exploring the Artist’s Mind
(0021-05-12) Horne, Abigail G.
The following creative thesis includes a printed book of visual and written artwork accompanied by an academic treatise explaining the creative process and references. The book is bound in an 8” by 8” yellow soft cover and contains 8 poems and 26 art pieces covering different media including oil paintings, handmade paper, intaglio prints, and gouache paintings. The content is carefully arranged so as to create a dialogue between text and visuals—each starting as an independent piece that achieves a greater depth of meaning through conversation with adjacent works. Everything from cover to final page is handwritten in replacement of type font, evoking the feel of an artist journal. The treatise written in response to the book explores the scope of the project from initial ideas to final printing while referencing several artists and writers that provided inspiration for content. The title, fragile things, eludes to the delicate nature of both the physical materials in the artworks and the ideas of a childhood lost and reclaimed.
Robert Dale (Bob) Anderson (1949-2009)
(2011-08) Anderson, Robert Dale (Bob); Doroba, Mark (photographer)
The Fine Arts Library is proud to exhibit the work of artist Robert Dale Anderson. Anderson was an esteemed art teacher here at the University of Texas for over twenty years. The fourth floor of the FAL is the current home to Anderson's elaborate found-object construction "Male"(c.1980's). On the fifth floor, there are two more sculptural works by Anderson, "Almost" (1983-85) and "White Girl" (1995). Also on exhibit are four lithographs of intricate drawings by the artist. All of the work is on loan through Mona and Ken Hale. Marnie Weber described Anderson's "Almost" as: "Carrying an awesome and silent presence, the sculpture has a very human quality, suggestive of an ancient Polynesian king on a throne...it rests with a quiet patience and a humble compassion, yet it seems to know its own absurdity." In a recent artist statement, Anderson wrote: “What is realized through silent contemplation is content that polite society does its best to hide - decay, disease, death, dementia, and chaos: the dark side. Siding within the traditions of the erotic, carnivalesque, fantastic, surrealistic, and psychedelic we find malignant growth and movement, a rotting world turned upside down in disorder, twisted grotesque bodies, beautiful monsters and decaying ruins.” Anderson was represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas and D. Berman Gallery in Austin. His work is in countless private collections as well as in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the Ransom Center and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Born in Glendale California in 1949, Anderson received his M.F.A. and B.F.A. at California State University at Long Beach. He moved to Austin in 1988 when he joined the faculty the University of Texas.