That skill shows in Anderson’s collaborations with wordsmith Ginny Hoyle, an old friend with whom she’s created several handmade book projects. Their latest tag-team creation, When We Were Birds, a multi-faceted installation combining book art with poetry, opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. in the back gallery of Walker Fine Art, 300 West Eleventh Avenue.
To begin this project, Anderson and Hoyle began meeting weekly to tell stories and sort out their lives together as both continued to grow as women. When We Were Birds, which juxtaposes books made from cut-apart pages from Anderson’s old notebooks with Hoyle’s words, emerged from those sessions. “It’s really about soaring now, when you’re in your sixties, about sailing forward,” Anderson says. “It’s almost like a memoir, with books that form a sculptural city out of fragments from both of our lives.” Eventually, the collaboration grew to include photographer Efrain Cruz and sculptor Christopher Hecker, a resident at PlatteForum during last year’s Biennial of the Americas, who created platforms for the installation.
When We Were Birds continues through May 7, along with concurrent shows by gallery artists Angela Beloian and Mark Castator; for more information, go to http://walkerfineart.com or call 303-355-8955.
March 25-May 7, 2011
