Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson is a Sarasota-based sculptor and Interim Chair of Fine Arts at Ringling College of Art and Design. His work is in many private, university, corporate and museum collections including Coca Cola Company in Atlanta, Ga.; Kohler Company Arts in Industry Collection, Sheyboygan, Wisconsin; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, Ga. A major work, Woman Asleep, was installed at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Clearwater, Florida in 1995. It was one of the first works acquired for their outdoor sculpture collection, which includes many nationally prominent sculptors. This work was the only sculpture from the museum collection sited in the Art Lovers Guide to Florida, by Anne Jeffery and Aletta Dreller.

Anderson’s work combines intense realism with a rigorous formal design. It is in the tradition of humanist realism that goes back to the Quattrocento and yet is absolutely contemporary in its structure. His work resonates with people at many levels. He works within a tradition and attempts to extend that tradition. Even at its most abstract, his work has always been representational and his recent work is even more so. The late Henry Geldzahler, former curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art said of the large freestanding work, "Mark Anderson's bronze castings are among the most accomplished works in the show. Greek art and mythology combine with the work of Germaine Richier, Reg Butler and the American Rueben Nakian in his moving handsome sculptures. They perfectly balance representation and abstraction while emphasizing our origins in animal nature."