06/19/2026
ON VIEW: Somethings, a collection of small sculpture by artist Ivy Laurel Anderson.
~Come by the Lyndon House to view Somethings in the Arts Center’s Lobby Case~
May 14 - July 18, 2026
Ivy Laurel Anderson creates sculptural assemblages from discarded, mass-produced objects—faucet k***s, drawer pulls, trophies, and toys—collected from thrift stores and secondhand spaces. These fragments of everyday life, caught between function and obsolescence, are reconfigured into tangled armatures and encased in machine-knitted elastic membranes. The textile skin veils and distorts the hard structures beneath, forming topographic surfaces that shift with perspective. Through this interplay of softness and rigidity, familiarity and abstraction, she investigates the transformation of objects into Somethings—forms that challenge our sense of depth, scale, and containment. This process redirects post-consumer waste and positions textile as a critical sculptural material, asking the viewer to reconsider their relationship to material excess, disposability, and the strange afterlives of the things we leave behind.
Anderson is based in Savannah, GA and holds an MFA in Fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BA in Fashion Design from Indiana University. She has been granted multiple artist residencies, including at SCAD Alumni Atelier and the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Informed by global research from Japan to Italy, Anderson’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including honors from the International Design Awards, Surface Design Association, Red Dot Design Awards, and the Artist Seed Grant from ArtPrize.
