SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM
WILLIAM SCARBROUGH HOUSE AND GARDENS
SUPPER AT SEA - IVY LAUREL ANDERSON
Artist Biography
Ivy Anderson is a fiber artist from Spring Lake, Michigan with a Master of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
With a background in fashion design, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University, Bloomington with a concentration in wearable sculpture.
Ivy specializes in machine knitting with her current body of work investigating abstraction and form through the use of discarded objects.
In December 2023, she traveled to Japan to research traditional fiber processes in Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo, and Shikoku Island. Ivy’s first solo exhibition Somewhere Between Something and Nothing took place in May 2024, and this body of work received the Red Dot International Design Concept Award as well as Bronze in the International Design Awards.
Ivy recently returned from an artist residency with the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum in Michigan where she taught workshops related to fibers and sculpture. Her work was in Grand Rapids ArtPrize 2024 and is currently on view in Grand Rapids for her solo exhibition HUM.
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These works consider the heartbeat of the ocean and the bravery of the souls who venture out into her.
Water sloshes as the great marble turns
little wooden island I wish you well
Sediment of ecosystems
boiled, steeped, and frothed
Deep monstrous hum
She is the ocean
in the eye of the whale
I see her float
SHE IS THE OCEAN
IN THE EYE OF THE WHALE
I SEE HER FLOAT
She is the Ocean
Found objects, acrylic, elastic, cotton rope
Free standing
Measures 48" x 20" x 17"
In the Eye of the Whale
Found objects, acrylic, elastic, cotton rope
Free standing
Measures 49" x 21" x 14"
I See Her Float
Elastic on wood
Suspended
Frame is wired, hung from wire
Measures 40" x 5.5"
