This is Who I Am Now
A Solo Presentation by Amber Eve Anderson
Washington, DC: Hamiltonian Artists presents This is Who I Am Now, Amber Eve Anderson’s first solo exhibition with Hamiltonian Artists. It will be on view by appointment only from October 31 – November 28 at H Space, 1932 9th Street NW, #C102 (Enter from 9 1/2 Street), Washington, DC 20001. All public programs will take place online.
This is Who I Am Now is an archive of every advertisement that Anderson viewed on Instagram over a one-week period. Composed of 126 images that almost exclusively depict household goods, the archive presents a portrait of the artist through the lens of targeted advertising. The exhibition vacillates between physical and digital worlds, combining images and found objects through installation and video, functioning as a case study in the aspirational. Objects ranging from rugs to sofas to earrings to soap portrayed amidst orderly, plant-filled, sun-dappled rooms, suggest affluence, aesthetic integrity, and a good night of sleep. Anderson highlights the way one’s surroundings, whether virtual, manmade, or natural, come to shape one’s identity and behavior. By bringing representations of social media into physical space, the work calls attention to everyday technologies by upsetting the usual means of interaction. Her work functions as a playful, funny, and poetic critique in order to explore how identity is reduced by consumerism.
Amber Eve Anderson (b. 1982) lives and works in Baltimore. She received an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art multidisciplinary program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2016 and a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2005. Her work has been exhibited in group shows across the US as well as in Canada, Finland, Morocco, and Peru. In 2019 she received an Individual Artist Award in Media from the Maryland State Arts Council. She was a 2019 and 2020 Trawick Prize Semi-finalist and a 2016 Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Baker Artist Award Finalist. Her work has been featured in Bmore Art Magazine, Hyperallergic, and The Creator’s Project. She volunteers on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore.
October 31 - November 28, 2020
Location: H Space, 1932 9th Street NW, #C102 (Enter from 9 1/2 Street), Washington, DC 20001
Virtual Artist Talk: Saturday, November 14th, 7pm
Watch here
Hamiltonian Fellow:
Amber Eve Anderson
photos by Zia Palmer