Liv Aanrud
Liv Aanrud earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts with a painting emphasis from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire in 2001. She was awarded a full scholarship and teaching fellowship at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in 2011. She as taught at ARTworks Charter School, at Santa Barbara City College, and was awarded a teaching fellowship at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
Aanrud’s work has been the subject of one person exhibitions at BozoMag, New Image Art, Arvia, 1700 Naud and TSA-LA in Los Angeles, at Bay College in Escanaba Michigan and Finlandia University, Hancock Michigan. She has also had solo shows at Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe, Pamela Salisbury Gallery and at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York City. Her work has been shown at Felix Art Fair and Untitled, Miami, as well as in group exhibitions across the U.S., Taiwan, Germany, and Spain.
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Artist Statement
Time becomes tactile, ticked up in a stitch; this rhythm is a reverie where my mind can find rest through work. My textiles are an earnest attempt to slow time, to hold fast in a world that seems built to commodify and consume. This meticulous labor is necessary retreat, a coping mechanism in a world that simply cannot be kept up with.
Yarn is a rolled-up line, that becomes a stitched, soft sculptural drawing that looks like a painting.
These classifications: painting, drawing, sculpture are of little consequence to the women depicted here. They are dead set, determined, and direct. Their bodies are a dialect--a (tattooed) Mother tongue that notes knowledge as symbols on their skin.
These two are tangled together twins, born of the same world, but echoing out into alternate versions. Competent, charmed, powerful, and self-sufficient, they are staging a utopia where they are so integrated that the disappear and reappear into it. In this visual play, we are witness to creation. They are “Eve’s” in a different garden—one absent of men and their religion and rules and punishment. Their bodies are a celebration.
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