Alexander Anderson

Alex Anderson is an artist from the United States. He earned his B.A. in art history from John Cabot University in Rome, minoring in philosophy. His studies brought him into contact with contemporary art and art criticism, the final catalyst for his decision to pursue visual art professionally. From 2015 until its closure, Alex was contributing arts writer for KCMetropolis.Org in Kansas City. He sees his effort to create and write about others’ works as a way of life that he hopes inspires and helps others. In the past he has enjoyed assisting students in the execution of their work as a studio assistant while developing his own portfolio.

In fall of 2020 Alex completed a Master of Letters in Sculpture at The Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. There he began making work in reaction to the stones on the foreshores of tidal lochs on the Isle of Skye. Currently he makes work in response to the Sonoran Desert landscape of the USA, and the coastal landscapes and dunes of Northeastern Brazil. His interests centre upon sculptural art practices and investigations of landscapes in relation to memory, climate science, classic literature, poetry, and phenomenology. Focusing on wind and the concept of nostos (νόστος).: he explores the grief of homecoming, the arduousness of the journey, and the bittersweetness felt at actually arriving, in addition to the many interpretations, functions, and uses of wind.

Alex shares a studio and gallery space in the West Bottoms of Kansas City called 3 West. In co-founding PAKD Gallery Berlin, he is eager to participate and offer his skills in an artist run, artist led space that operates upon principles he believes is a way forward for a supportive artistic environment and gallery model.