ROGER ARVID ANDERSON, artist and sculptor
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Address: 1048 Union Street #1, San Francisco, CA 94133
Landline: 415-928-1523 Cell: 415-694-8082
E-mail: raanderson@att.net Website: www.rogerarvidanderson.com
Born: 1946, St. Paul, MN Education: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; BA 1968
Dartmouth Fellowship: Cambridge University, Cambridge, England; BA & MA 1970
Studios since 1972: in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, CA
Artist’s Archive since 2008: Andersen Library, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Studios since 1972 in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, CA.
FOUNDRY RELATIONSHIPS in California
Berkeley Art Foundry, 1974 – 1981; Nordhammer Art Foundry, Oakland, 1981 – 1985;
Since 1986: Artworks Foundry, Berkeley, which is a full service foundry equipped to do
monumental sculpture, either cast or fabricated from metal sheet.
I am a hands-on sculptor at the foundry, noted for my expertise in wax work and metal finishing. I have created, cast and finished over 125 different bronze sculptures since 1974. I have also created 54 sculptures in wood.
Public and larger scale sculptures include:
STORM LORD in the rotunda of the Mountain View City Hall, CA
BUCEPHALUS, from Mythic Sculpture Exhibit, Minnesota Museum of Art purchase
WAYMAN DISC, 3-foot wide double-sided disc on a plinth, Los Altos Hills, CA
HOMAGE TO THE CUBE,4 foot high millennial celebration of the cube, on loan to the Frost Museum, FIU, Miami FL; 2011 to 2019.
EMERGENCE, THE FIRST PEOPLE, 52-inch high stelae inspired by Native American creation stories, created to honor the 400th anniversary of Santa Fe in 2010; commissioned by New Concept Gallery and exhibited on Canyon Road
Gallery representation: Robert Nichols Gallery 419 Canyon Rd., Santa Fe, NM
Private Collections: San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Chicago, San Diego, Vancouver, Victoria, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, St. Paul.
Please visit my comprehensive website for images, exhibitions, publications and essays.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
July to November, 2019... “Moons and Meteors”, Robert Nichols Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
May 23 to Sept. 7, 2015... “Braving the Elements, the Outdoor Sculpture of Roger Arvid
Anderson”, New Concept Gallery, 610 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM
May 14 to June 13, 2010... “Tribute to Santa Fe’s 400th Year”, New Concept Gallery
Sept. 1 to Oct. 3, 2009... “Objects: Mixed Medium”, 101/Exhibit, Miami, FL
May 30 to Nov. 15, 1992... “Plaza Art 92”, Mountain View, CA, city purchase
Nov. 17, 1990 to Jan. 6, 1991... “Mythic Sculpture: Manship, DeLue, Anderson”,
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN; museum purchase
MYTHIC SCULPTURE, 1990 film by Slavko Nowytski, narrated by Roger Anderson
