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About Amber Eve

Baltimore City, Baltimore City - Station North A&E District

Amber Eve Anderson is a conceptual artist whose work considers the ways identity and behavior are informed by one's surroundings, both physical and virtual. Oftentimes, this begins in the context of the home and extends from the objects and ideas therein to the cities and landscapes beyond. She combines everyday objects with text and digital ephemera, such as screenshots from her smartphone, in playful and poetic ways that reflect her personal experience. The work calls attention… more

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Free to a Good Home

Free to a Good Home is an attempt to understand the meaning of home based on the things within it. Each page documents an object advertised for ‘free to a good home’ on Craigslist and the subsequent email exchanges with anonymous users. At times poetic, at times mundane, everyday objects gain importance through personal histories and associations. The online performance, enacted in real life, offers a glimpse into the potential of online interactions. From a classic 1940s sofa to an underwater camera case, the ephemera of one home assumes life in another, each object threading together every home. Free to a Good Home was purchased by the New York Public Library and is sold at Printed Matter, the world's leading non-profit for artist books.

  • Cover
    Cover

    11 x 8.5", Perfect-bound, 141 pages

    Available for Purchase
  • classic 1940s sofa
    classic 1940s sofa

    Two-page spread from Free to a Good Home showing a screenshot from Craigslist for a red 1940s sofa and the resulting email exchange.

  • 7 Braid of Bison Grass
    7" Braid of Bison Grass

    Screenshot of bison grass ad that I posted to Craigslist.

  • Two-page Spread
    Two-page Spread

    Screenshot of Bison Grass ad (from previous image) along with resulting email exchanges.

  • Tune of a Dove According to a Wind Chime
    Tune of a Dove According to a Wind Chime

    Two-page spread showing screenshot of Craigslist ad for a CD recording of a wind chime along with resulting email exchanges.

  • Free to a Good Home excerpt

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    • The In Between is Nowhere

    This piece visualizes the space between two homes: Baltimore and Morocco. To the west is a curtain stitched along the coastline of Baltimore; to the east is a curtain stitched along the coast of Rabat, Morocco. The fans move the curtains toward each other, while the sand on the ground is slowly dragged apart by the curtains.
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    • The In Between is Nowhere
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