Exhibition Views of BLOOM.

BLOOM

By Liberty Worth and Susan Springer Anderson
May 14 – 21, 2022

To bloom implies growing, expanding and moving outward in a state of beauty and fruition. Rather than requiring ideal locations and perfect conditions, it involves force and power.

Susan Springer Anderson and Liberty Worth create with energy, persistence and tenacity - they push for the moments of fruitfulness and press into what is coming ahead.
Both artists are Los Angeles based, working in mixed media. They teach art together at a local high school and are also wives, mothers and business owners.

Susan Springer Anderson employs experimental printing techniques including trace monotypes and multi layered acrylic monotype printing that result in ghostly remnant-like drawings and spatially dense, texturally rich mixed media paintings.
Liberty Worth is a fiber artist, using unconventional sewing techniques to create textile paintings that push beyond the idea of tradition. Repurposed design sample materials combine with cotton, silk and wool to reveal new worlds of imagery.

Experience this two week show through the opening reception, closing artist talk or by appointment.

Opening reception for BLOOM.

About the artists

Liberty Worth

Liberty Worth is a native of Los Angeles- a city of grit, diversity and great natural beauty. Influenced by the power of art and nature to soothe trauma and bring peace, she creates works that reflect natural wonder and quiet beauty from both new and discarded or repurposed materials.  Her work invites the viewer to come and rest in a place of quiet healing while bringing in bold color and intense patterning, reflecting the movement of the city and finding the quiet spaces in between. Collected textiles from diverse cultures and travels around the world reflect the artist’s passion and celebration of the diverse city she was born into and loves deeply.

Liberty is an artist, quilter, designer, teacher and poet. For Liberty, art and creating are a way of life - helping us make sense of the world - its beauty and pain - and enabling us to take part in the act of creation. Liberty graduated from Pepperdine University with a major in Fine Art, spent years as a textile designer in the Interiors industry and continued her art education over the years at The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Center.

Liberty teaches workshops and lessons in mixed media, meditation and healing through art, sewing and quilting.
@libertyworthart
@libbydibby
@thehumblegift
www.libertyworthart.com

Susan Springer Anderson

Susan Springer Anderson's body of work ranges from printmaking to sculpture and encompasses a myriad of mediums in between. Whatever the method, she explores the specific qualities of her medium and materials as a means of weaving together diverse layers of human experience. At the start of each new piece, she holds in one hand the tension between blessing and pain in family life; and in the other hand, the full range of possible line qualities, from sinuous to rigid.  She then goes to work binding them together, seeking a visual synergy that allows the formal to embody the emotional, and the emotional to enliven the formal. As a result, her pieces are both explorations of formal composition- the sheer enjoyment of line against color and texture juxtaposed with shape - and physical representations of the deeply personal journeys of growing into one's identity and encountering and grappling with doubt. Artistic playfulness, emotional expression, spiritual reflection - it’s all in the mix. 

 Visually, her largely abstract pieces include references to the urban environments of Los Angeles and New York where she has resided for the last 18 years. These references are held in balance with allusions to her penchant for gardening and the respite and rebirth of wonder she finds in nature. Homages to stained concrete and mirrored glass mix with pieces that incorporate materials - such as grape vine and Spanish moss - scavenged from nature. Such encounters between traditional and non-traditional, artificial and natural materials occur throughout her work, making each piece a unique celebration of art's capacity to express the beauty and pain of living in ever-surprising ways.

 Her work has shown in juried gallery shows, solo features and in non-traditional spaces in Southern California, New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Indiana, North Carolina and Washington  D.C. She is a graduate of Anderson University in Indiana with a B.A. in Graphic Design and a working emphasis in sculpture. She studied design  at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. In 2010 she was a Queens Community Art Fund grant recipient for her project "Art: From the Garden to the Walls." She also received a Puffin Grant in 2017 for her project at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, Ca,  "Ashes & Stains." She is the Artist in Residence at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Pacifica Palisades since 2018. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California.
@susan_springer_anderson
www.susanspringeranderson.com