Lea Anderson, a mixed media and installation artist, has lived and worked in New Mexico since 2003 and has discovered much during her adventures in the dramatic, colorful, and wild desert environment.

Often working in multiples and accumulations, each installation piece or body of work cultivates forms and patterns that suggest complex biological characteristics, and can be compared to botanical material, fungi, ocean life, or microbes. Repetitive patterns interweave with unique and irregular components, creating a dynamic interplay that echoes living systems.

Anderson has exhibited throughout New Mexico and the USA, as well as internationally in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2015, Anderson was invited to create a monumental, digitally-produced installation piece for the Atrium windows of the Albuquerque Museum as their Summer Artist-in-Residence. She is currently a Full-Time Art Studio Faculty at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM). In addition to college courses, Lea teaches many unique workshops and short-term classes using a wide variety of experimental mixed media techniques. She has curated exhibitions for 516 ARTS, Harwood Art Center, and Inpost Artspace in Albuquerque. Her work has inspired dozens of collaborative installation projects made by by K-12 student artists world-wide, and she celebrates this as a true honor. She is currently collaborating on projects with Electric Playhouse and Meow Wolf in New Mexico.

leadeniseanderson@gmail.com