#41: The Psychedelia of Steven Anderson's Morning Glories
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Featured this week is a conversation we held with Steven Anderson during a visit to his studio, where he walks us through a new body of work to be shown as part of his Working Artist Project exhibition at the newly-renovated MOCA GA. We talk flowers, lines, and psychedelics. Check out a preview below, and subscribe to see the whole interview.
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The Psychedelia of Steven Anderson’s Morning Glories
Jasmine Hentschel interviews Steven in his studio
Those familiar with Steven Anderson may know his intricate tree-ring works, or have seen his plant-focused pieces at Kai Lin Gallery. Perhaps you’ve chatted nature with him during a visit to Day & Night, the artist-run gallery he co-founded in 2016. Wherever in Atlanta (or beyond) you’ve encountered him, you haven’t seen pieces quite like this before. We visited his studio at Day & Night to discuss the macroscopic yet intricate body of work he’s building for his Working Artist Project show at the newly renovated MOCA GA later this year. We talk the psychedelic nature of flowers, his experiments with oil paints, and using contour lines as depth.
Jasmine Hentschel We’re here with Steven Anderson in his studio at Day and Night Projects in Southwest Atlanta. Thank you so much for chatting with GULCH today.
Steven Anderson Thank you.
JH Today we’re looking at what you’re working on for the Working Artist Project at MOCA GA, which is set to open up their new location in a few months. You’ve gone and seen the space. How was it?
SA Vast. I’m excited for all the new energy and space in that building. I feel like MOCA GA is going to be HIGH museum level in terms of its stature and status. I’m really excited for that.
JH Thinking about the vastness, a lot of this work is larger than work that many of us have seen from you in the past. How are you thinking about the scale of the work itself in relation to the space, how people are going to view and experience it?
SA There’s three bodies of work in this show, and one of them is Morning Glories. I’m going to make at least eight seven foot by five foot vertical paintings that feature morning glory flowers. Most of them are as big as three or four feet wide. They’re macroscopic, I guess you would say. It’s interesting because I think viewers will feel drawn into them in the same way that a bee or a moth is drawn into a flower. That’s what I’m hoping.
JH We talked earlier about this idea of a cosmic sense of time and how psychedelics play into the work. Can you tell us what you’re creating and how people might experience these morning glories in particular?