Star School came to me in the middle of the night. In a flash, I saw a new series of paintings filled with stars and the intricate structures used to view them. I imagined color, line and shape creating huge spatial distance in a bright outer space, all in the language of my work. In the morning the vision was still alive so I started painting.

This series came to me right as I was thinking about a content shift in my work. I wanted to move away from an autobiographical narrative and focus on color, form, and material. As I started this series, I realized a story will always be present in my work, it just doesn’t have to be my personal story. Star School is a fantasy novel infiltrating an imaginary school text book. In previous work I was writing a memoir, but here I am a fiction writer.
– Ky Anderson, 2020

After living and working in Brooklyn NY for over 15 years, the pandemic of 2020 prompted Ky Anderson, as it did so many artists, to relocate. Anderson always maintained strong ties to Kansas City community where she grew up and attended school. She graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995. In 2020, she moved back to KC and transitioned from a small NY studio to an expansive warehouse loft. Her Kansas City studio allows her the space to expand and explore paintings and drawings with a new freedom. Anderson’s light filled, abstract color harmonies echo architecture, sculpture and the figure and read as poetry not prose.

Ky Anderson’s work is exhibited across the country including New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Anderson recently completed a public commission for a series of twelve paintings for the new Cambridge Tower at the University of Kansas Hospital, KC, KS.