Opening Reception: Saturday, December 7 from 2-5 pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, January 4 from 4-7 pm

Fig Leaves is a collection of oil paintings that depict male statues from Anderson’s travels and museum visits. The title Fig Leaves is a playful reference to the practice of using fig leaves to cover nudity in figurative work, which became common starting in the 1600s and can be seen on several of the statues she painted in the exhibition.

In these works, she explores how the human body is used in art, design, and decoration—including the role gender and attraction play in figurative art and how uniform stylization and idealization are used for utilitarian purposes. While this work is figurative in nature, ultimately they are paintings of objects. Her paintings depict shaped stone, wood, and metal, not living flesh bodies.