It has been a while since I have talked about the work of Ky Ander­son, but I love it all the same. I enjoy Ky’s use of color, and despite their more muted char­ac­ter­is­tics, they are not mud­dled. And, if they are mud­dled, Ky explains in her state­ment that they are that way by their very nature:

If you stop what you are doing and look as far away as you can, even if it is just in the other room, or if you are lucky enough to be out­side, look as far away as you can. There are so many things/stuff/objects in your way of see­ing far into the dis­tance. Those dis­trac­tions, objects, pat­terns and the small­est open­ing that lets you see even fur­ther are what my paint­ings are about. They are about the things in the way of see­ing as far as you can. Some­times these objects in my paint­ings are from mem­o­ries, mem­o­ries of the color of a room or shape of a hill. The com­bi­na­tion of the strug­gle to see in the dis­tance and flashes of mem­o­ries make up the sto­ries within my paint­ings. Out of these thoughts comes work that looks almost abstract, but in my eyes the com­bi­na­tion of shapes and col­ors have stories.

All images via her web­site. Ky also has a blog detail­ing her art col­lec­tion, which I really enjoyed view­ing as well.