Brett Anderson
Brett Anderson
Brett Anderson is an Assistant Professor of printmaking at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. Brett grew up in central Missouri, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Missouri in 1999. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of South Dakota in 2002.
He has had solo exhibitions in Oregon, Arizona, California, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Missouri and participated in over 100 group exhibitions nationally over the past 10 years. Recently, Brett has been a visiting artist, leading workshops on relief printmaking techniques, at California State University, Stanislaus; at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC; and at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, in Odessa.
As much as I love 21st century conveniences and its infrastructure of communication, I have curmudgeon’s distrust for whiz-bang gadgetry, tabloid journalism and throwaway consumerism. In an obtuse way I strive to address the vexations I have of our contemporary society through my work. I do this primarily through well-worn processes screen printing and relief printmaking; ways of making art that have a closer affinity to catapult construction instead of anything requiring a high-speed internet connection.
