The Alchemy of Memory with Kimberly Anderson
The Alchemy of Memory with Kimberly Anderson
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, July 30th, at 7 pm EDT
Join us this week as we dive into the alchemy of alternative processes and collage with Kimberly Anderson. Drawing from Southern Black spiritual traditions and family histories, Kimberly weaves together alternative processes, collage, natural dyes, and altered vernacular objects such as photo fragments, vintage ads, and references to beauty shop price lists, community boards, and household materials. Here, Kimberly’s work questions how memory degrades, how it curls, warps, or becomes scorched by time. With roots in photography, Kimberly’s images are both constructed and unearthed—blurring the line between surface and structure, recollection and residue.
Through paper making and the use of fire, Kimberly has been creating work thatnconnects body, place, and memory, inviting viewers into an intimate, layered re-imaging of Southern identity rooted in resilience and ritual. Fire is used as both a metaphor and a method, incorporated through burn marks, faded edges, and ghost images.
Join us as we dive into the alchemy of alternative processes and collage. Together, we will ponder new ways to alchemize our memories and illuminate our practice
Kimberly Anderson is a Brooklyn based artist originally from Richmond, Virginia. Working through photo-based processes, collage, and papermaking, her practice explores memory, ruin, and the psychic residue of place. She uses cyanotype, anthotype, (often made from foodstuff) to layer personal and regional histories.
Her work will be included in Familiar Rhythm: Time, Nostalgia & Memory at the Albany Museum of Art (2026) and has been featured in Southern Cultures Journal: The Gothic South (Winter 2023).
