art advisor

Current artist representation

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Anderson Arts provides creative consultation and direct collaboration on:  

• Advising artists

• Mentoring artists and making studio visits                                              

•  Editing essays and articles   

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Work & perspective

Craig Anderson has over thirty years of experience in the contemporary arts. His background includes time as an installations specialist, museum administrator, curator, and college-level fine arts instructor. Craig has always maintained a strong studio practice and continuing to develop his own body of work remains at the forefront today. His background and experience gives him insights into working as an arts advisor to clients and a mentor to artists.

While directing the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Anderson curated a number of solo and two-artist exhibitions. Arrhythmic Visions, an exhibition of current works by Jamie Hamiltion and Alison Keogh received strong reviews and regional attention.  Munson Hunt’s starkly beautiful sculptural exhibition Reclamation called attention to artistic and ecological issues, while Mokha Laget’s exhibition of sculptural paintings entitled CRUX and George O. Jackson’s elegant photographic images in Calaveras Resplandecientes, were also very significant exhibitions and critically well received.  Anderson also co-curated and installed 18 Days -100 New Mexico Women in the Arts, a collaboration with three outstanding women jurors (Mary Kershaw, Director, NM Museum of Art; Jackie M, Director of Education, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Barbara Tyner, Independent Art Historian) and members of the New Mexico Committee of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.

The immensely popular Meow Wolf installation at CCA co-curated with that artist's collective andentitled The Due Return was extended for a month in the summer of 2011 and set a CCA attendance record. Public programming during The Due Return included, rock concerts, a Cabaret Bar and a night of performances by Santa Fe Opera Apprentices. This exhibition was a sea change for Meow Wolf and is well documented by YouTube episodes, QR codes and an exhibition catalog.

Anderson also curated and collaboratively installed the group KeepAdding’s ground breaking exhibition WREKAGE. As with many endeavors, these were all large and comprehensive projects involving amazing contributions by institutional staff members, contract professionals and volunteers. Teamwork has always been the essence of success. Many thanks go to the numerous remarkable individuals who played key roles in making these and many other projects reflected here a success.  

Anderson has consulted with the McKnight Foundation regarding annual awards to artists, and has appeared on two panels sponsored by New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts. He mentors, advises and represents artists and collectors and also writes occasionally on the arts and culture. Recent posts include an essay on the Patrick Cariou-Richard Prince and Gagosian Gallery lawsuit on Photoeye Blog and an interview with Louis Grachos in the summer 2014 issue of TREND magazine.

Anderson’s independent projects as an arts advisor have included consulting and installing a private contemporary painting collection in Malibu, CA, installing the visually stunning Cornelia Parker sculptural work entitled “Mass, Colder, Darker Matter” for the Phoenix Art Museum on two occasions. More recently Anderson advised the California photographer Sol Hill regarding his exhibition “Signal from Noise” at the LEICA Gallery in West Hollywood, LA; Anderson also Curated and with Hill oversaw the installation Hill's 2014 Exhibition "Suspicious Privacy", in a Wynnwood Warehouse during Art Basel Miami.

Anderson’s involvements have included advising the well-known painter, printmaker, sculptor and public projects artist Stuart Nielsen, who works out of Minneapolis. Anderson has also advised Artist and Printmaker Marina Brownlow, Sculptor Laird Hoveland and Artist David Rudolph regarding an on-going project in LA.

exhibition installations with contemporary artists

ARTISTS

Agnes Martin

Alan Rath

Alexis Smith, 2002

Alison Keogh

Allan Graham

Andy Goldsworthy

Bruce Nauman

Cai Guo-Qiang

Carlos Bunga

Carlos Cruz-Diez

Charlene Teters

Charles Ray

Cildo Meireles

Cornelia Parker

David Rudolph

Diller and Scofidio

Doris Salcedo

Ellsworth Kelly

Erica Wanenmacher

Ernesto Neto

Fred Tomaselli

Gajin Fujita

Gary Hill

Gary Simmons

George Bures Miller

George O. Jackson

Gregor Schneider

Gregory Crewdsen

Guillermo Kuitca

Harmony Hammond

CURATORS:

Brady Roberts - PAM

Dan Cameron -SITE

Dave Hickey - SITE

Francesco Bonami - SITE

Franklin Sirmans - MAM

Louis Grachos - SITE

Rosa Martinez - SITE

Peter Boswell - MAM

Rene Morales - MAM

Rina Carvajal - MAM