Shift/Drift Paintings

Art by K.I.A. - Kirby Ian Andersen, Kirby Andersen, Kirby Anderson

These works are mostly done en plein air, in various weather conditions -20 to +30º, using found materials (flora, snowdrifts, shells, etc). Some were done on snowdrifts, some on sand dunes, some on the slope of a mountain with other done whilst crouching under a rainy footbridge, and so on… and are a part of my para-studio endeavors.

These large works on canvas (and smaller works on paper) use found weather and natural materials (flora, topography, shells, etc). Their origin was the ash-drifted ephemeral outdoor installations (see Weatherworks).

These works are analog (handmade) & digital — on raw canvas and paper, linear with messy blooms of color which are disrupted or hacked. The linear segments are like a glimpse of a coexistent dimension or a splice in time. The works also cross over into the genetically modified series, with their 'resequencing' or insertion of separate sections; they also have origins in collage and influences from music production techniques (sampling, timestretching, looping, glitching.)

The paintings were done done in Canada, the US, and Mexico so far, and in various climates, (alpine, prairie, tropical...) embedding weather from all of them. (This echoes my ongoing process of making collages from materials gathered on travels — Nepalese movie posters, Japanese manga, Mexican ads...) More paintings and sections are to be done in various locations across the world, ultimately to show them collectively (edge to edge) as one massive megacollege, a world wide web of work, with the series accreting meaning as more locations/nations are added.

(Works in various dimensions, from 84x60” down to 9x6”)